A Lengthy Island particular schooling aide has been arrested and charged for taking lewd pictures of a 13-year-old lady within the becoming room of a Goal in Selden.
The alleged incident occurred on the afternoon of Oct. 19 when Aqeel Ahmad, 53, “reached his cellphone beneath the dressing room door and took pictures” of the lady as she tried on garments, Suffolk County police mentioned Wednesday.
In keeping with investigators, the lady’s father witnessed the incident and approached the alleged perv, who fled the shop on foot. He was later recognized as Ahmad and was arrested Tuesday night time in his automotive in Selden, simply down the road from his dwelling.
Ahmad has been charged with illegal surveillance within the second diploma and endangering the welfare of a kid. He was held in a single day on the Sixth Precinct and was scheduled to be arraigned Wednesday in First District Courtroom in Central Islip.
In keeping with police, Ahmad is an worker of the Japanese Suffolk BOCES tutorial heart in Bellport.
“Japanese Suffolk BOCES is conscious of the arrest and costs towards Aqeel Ahmad, a particular schooling aide at our Brookhaven Studying Middle, for alleged inappropriate habits involving a teen at a web site off of Japanese Suffolk BOCES property,” the college mentioned in a press release to Information 12 Lengthy Island.
Ahmad has since been positioned on go away and is barred from all BOCES properties.
Authorities are asking the general public to contact police in the event that they really feel they might have been victimized by Ahmad.
