Man arrested for sexually abusing sleeping teen: Cops

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Police in New York are looking for a man who sexually abused a sleeping girl on a subway train.

NEW YORK (FOX 5 NY) - A man from Long Island was arrested by the NYPD on charges he sexually assaulted a girl sleeping on a subway train.

Kenneth Kou, 28, of Albertston was taken into custody Thursday. He is accused of sex abuse, forcible touching and acting in a manner injurious to a chld.

The NYPD said the incident occurred on a Queens-bound "7" train while it was approaching the Junction Blvd. subway station on Sunday at approximately 3:45 p.m.

The 15-year-old girl was sleeping on the train when police said he started to press his body against her.

He got off the train at the Junction Blvd. station and took off.

Kou was wearing a black turtleneck shirt, gray shorts, and multicolored sneakers, at the time of the assault said police.

Police had asked for the public's help tracking down the perpetrator.