Wow, you must not have any kids our know anyone that does.

I agree, Phil. And this seven year-old…something smells fishy to me (and it ain’t her feet!)….

She was “petrified”? She wants the guy to “suffer” all the rest of his days?? Really makes you wonder about the parents.

Russian President Vladimir Putin once just rolled up a little boy’s shirt and kissed him on his belly. When asked later about it, he merely shrugged that it was too cute to pass up!

Weird, yes. But something someone needs to go away for years and years?

The funny thing about weirdos is that they draw out all the other weirdos!

This type of perv…starts with looking. Then touching. Next…the unthinkable. Any perv that goes to touching…can escalate if not punish. How would you feel if your daughter is being felt up and touched in this manner? Just imagine how this guy was getting excited over this type of action… And please…a speech coming from a little girl…that sounds like her mom said it…and she repeated it. You took that speech a bit seriously.

Kaz :
I totally support your comment. USA parents (most of them) are overprotecting and paranoids, and these weirdos probably growth up in the same kind of enviroment when they were little, overprotected with paranoid parents.
What really concern me is the statement of this 7 year old girl ““I want him to suffer, that’s all”, “I want him to suffer until he dies.” Wooow that is showing something about the parent educating her (too much violent video games?), she was not even rape, she was just touch on the foot, and move on…do not make this a bid deal , reserve that for those cases that really needed. And about making touching ( I am not talking about sexual related) a child like that a felony, woooww you need some reality pills.
Some USA parents need a year abroad learning from other cultures if they can learn,….and see how your child need to learn how to deal with this unperfect world, and when things are really a big deal ….., you guys are creating the new generation of USA weirdos!!!!….

Phil sounds like you have the same fetish.This guy should have his hands choopped off.This guy being so brave to do that in the library is telling you he did this before .Sickos like this should be shot or put to death .

4 years too much for touching a child? wow.

Yeah, some real trashy folks. I wonder if they’re trying to scam some money out of the city for this incident…might even be complete b.s.

They’re not “Gypsies” are they? In Astoria there are some swarthy families who go around just asking for money, just like that, on the street, but obviously in no need of it, something about their whole attitude is so “off”….

she was probably in shock, it has nothing to do with being articulate. how do you know what she was taught to do you moron?

Dude just give it up. You are going to get slammed all day. Now that they know you are the father they are just going to keep getting at you. This is not a place for people who are the victims. Not trying to be rude or anything but it’s the truth. If you been on here for long you would know what I am saying. Sorry this happened to your child but focus your energy on the issue not this news post.

I’m going to have to agree with Ace on that one. I’d focus on what you have to do to find your justice and not read up on this post or any other article that was written. And to be quite honest and no I’m not a parent yet but when I become one, my child will never and I repeat, EVER be out of eyesight from either myself or my wife because in the world we live in today no place is safe from molesters, stalkers, kidnappers, or to sum it up, sick and twisted people.
Sorry that this happened to you and best of luck in your quest for justice.

You’re the dad? “Peppe,” is it?

It’s not been my experience that little seven year-old girls claim to be “petrified” and want someone to “suffer” for the rest of his life.

You’re not trying to sue the city for some money, are you?

thank you for a realistic input. after reading some of the comments, i was wondering if i had been moved to another planet without knowing it. the detective in charge of the case has warned me, in case i see the guy, to stay away from him or i will go to jail. how funny is that? my baby refuses to sleep by herself because she’s scared of her own shadow, now. but this guy will get a slap on the hand if caught. meanwhile, if i find him and send him to the hospital, i’ll do 1 to 4….
yes, the law needs to be changed.
before guys like this move to bigger and better things (rape-kidnapping-murder) because they got away with it the first time…

What about Elenin?

I once dated a single mom whose five year-old accused the previous boyfriend of corporal punishment — physical assault! Poor guy got a record now as a child abuser over a single incident of spanking.

I’m sick of all this to-do about kids in American society. It’s phony. Americans don’t want to educate kids, don’t want to provide health benefits or nutritious food at school, but make a big deal out of silly incidents like this.

It wasn’t right of the foot fetishist, if this story is true, but everyone up in arms over the Village Idiot is…idiotic.

She used the word “petrified”, sounds like an imaginitive child.

let me repeat this: the children section of this branch is off limits to adults. no grown-ups are allowed upstairs UNLESS they are with their children. the entrance to the stairs is USUALLY monitored by library staff. apparently, that day, they were so busy that they left the stairs unattended.
after i’m done with them, trust me, they will never do it again.
and blaming my wife for considering a children’s library a safe heaven is a little out of place, i believe. she has been taking our child there since she (the child) was 4 years old for a weekly “reading adventure”. you don’t expect a perverted piece of human garbage to be allowed in a children’s sanctuary, do you?

Yeah, I found that weird, too.

Probably trashy kid with trashy parents. Seven years old and already thinking about making someone suffer? Then again, I guess kids grow up fast these days. In which case, a foot fetishist shouldn’t be so scary!

I agree with you. The law is good as it is already. 8 months in jail with a misdemeanor. What he did was scary and abusive, but not to the same extent as kidnapping or killing. Now I’m going to have to be careful when I go to the library never to accidentally step on a kid’s feet, I might go to prison for 4 years. The laws just keep getting more ridiculous in this country.

I would think the law would exclude such instances as regular discipline.

It seems they don’t monitor this area, they don’t even have a camera in place and you think it’s safe? Yeah, SUPPOSED to be safe….. If it’s so safe, why didn’t anyone see this person?

Well I work in a library and I would never leave my kids alone. The library is not what it was when you grew up and people need to realize that. Did you not hear about the molestation that occurred this spring at a New York Public Library Branch? And the library is a public place, adult are allowed on the children’s floor if they are looking for children’s material. You CANNOT deny someone total access to a section. Parents have a false sense of security when it comes to the library – wait everyone does.

I generally agree with you, Sally, and I hope the library can’t be sued (I think I smell an extortion attempt, like that lady who supposedly found a finger in her Wendy’s fries a few years back) — but I must say that we really can’t blame a parent, either, for not helicoptering over their kids, hovering over them all the time. Maybe it’s ’cause I come from another country, originally, but since coming to America way back when I was seven my family carried on the same as ever, sending me off to the library on my own, to school a quarter mile away on my own, sending me with money to the store on my own…I thought American children are supposed to grow up faster or something? Looks like that’s only true when it comes to sex and drugs!

Yeah, kids have sex and do drugs here in middle school but God forbid they should be allowed to wander the library on their own….