Sex offender grabs butt of NYC Councilwoman on a Rikers Island jails tour: sources

An accused enactment offender grabbed the rear extremity of City Council Member Sandy Nurse Tuesday greeting during a astonishment sojourn by elected officials to the jails, sources told the Daily News.

Nurse whose territory is successful Brooklyn, Council Member Tiffany Caban of Queens and others were connected the unannounced sojourn to the jails connected Rikers Island successful portion to measure attraction of radical held successful peculiar intelligence wellness units.

As Nurse walked done an country astatine the George R. Vierno Center, detainee Gregorio Garcia grabbed her. Correction officers intervened and pulled Garcia distant from Nurse, the sources said.

Garcia entered the jails connected Oct. 2 aft being arrested successful Manhattan connected a enactment maltreatment charge.

Nurse, who has been a professional of conditions successful the jails arsenic seat of the council’s Criminal Justice Committee, declined remark precocious Tuesday.

In a statement, DOC spokeswoman Annais Morales said, “The information of each DOC employees, radical successful custody, and visitors is simply a apical precedence for the department.

“This disturbing incidental is nether investigation. We are grateful to the members of work who rapidly and professionally addressed the situation.”

On Monday, Nurse, Caban, Council Member Mercedes Narcisse and Deputy assembly Speaker Diana Ayala called for a probe of extended lock-ins successful intelligence wellness units connected Rikers Island.

The circuit Tuesday was triggered by an nonfiction successful The News successful which a erstwhile jailhouse societal idiosyncratic alleged severely mentally sick men were routinely locked successful their cells for weeks and adjacent months.