New York Daily News

‘Stupid’ girls set me up: train groper

- BY ROCCO PARASCANDO­LA With Molly Crane-Newman

They made him do it.

Pervy pop-pop Conrado Aleman, 82, a repeat subway sex offender busted Friday for groping two women, told the Daily News that the ladies were in cahoots and set him up.

For the sixth time in two years, cops busted the octogenari­an ogler for rubbing his groin against two victims in Midtown and uptown, minutes apart from each other.

He was charged with two counts of forcible touching and sexual abuse.

Reached near his home in Hamilton Heights, Aleman denied any wrongdoing, putting the blame on the women.

“The two women were working together,” he said. “I was only standing there on the train at 42nd St. and she backed into me. She looked at the other woman as if to say ‘OK.’”

In the Friday incident, prosecutor­s charge he victimized a 26-year-old woman, rubbing against her buttocks about 6 p.m. on the northbound No. 2 train at the Times Square station.

About six minutes later, police said, he did the same thing to a 24-year-old woman as the train neared the 72nd St. station. It wasn’t clear if either woman knew what happened to the other, but cops said they both reported Aleman to police at the 96th St. station and he was arrested.

“It was those stupid girls,” he said Tuesday. “The police followed me because they recognized my face and they were looking to get someone.” He said he’s a happily married man. “I’m 82 and married to my wife for over 30 years,” Aleman said. “What would I want with those little girls? I have my wife.”

He played dumb about the previous charges. “I don’t really know about those,” he said. Aleman (inset) has said he has erectile dysfunctio­n, but in instances where cops caught him in the act, he was fully aroused, they said. His lawyer has said he has dementia. Aleman has five previous arrests related to subway grinding. Two cases are sealed and three others are pending.

His most recent arrest before this was in June when he targeted a 27-year-old woman on the No. 1 train, police said.

Considerin­g all the problems he’s had riding the rails, his wife offered Aleman some advice.

“She says I shouldn’t use the subway if I don’t have to,” he said.

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