New York Daily News

Busted in lewd abuse of a gal asleep on train

- Rocco Parascando­la and Thomas Tracy

COPS ARRESTED a 27-year-old man they said pleasured himself in front of a sleeping woman on a Brooklyn-bound No. 5 train early Tuesday, police sources said.

Police captured Kevin Bailey inside the Flatbush Ave./Nostrand Ave. train station about 4 a.m. after the woman woke up and found him touching himself in front of her.

The startled woman flagged down NYPD Transit Police Officer Carl Daniels, whom Bailey punched in the face during a brief struggle, cops said. The officer wasn’t seriously hurt. Cops charged Bailey with public lewdness and sex abuse.

Police recovered DNA material from the woman’s sweater and leggings, which was being processed by a forensic team Tuesday. Bailey was Tuesday. to be arraigned

Police are investigat­ing whether Bailey is a suspect in similar crimes.

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