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Parks and wrecked.
A perverted parks worker went berserk in a Manhattan playground, exposing himself to a mom and toddler, urinating in the street and then laying down in the middle of Broadway traffic to fondle himself, according to witnesses and video footage.
The on-duty, uniformed worker, Jeremy Soto, 36, told cops, “I’m high on PCP,” after he was arrested for exposing himself in May in Fort Tryon Park in Inwood, according to a copy of the police complaint.
He was busted two days later for allegedly hugging a woman from behind on a Bronx subway platform, grabbing her breasts and kissing her neck, records show.
Why Soto was on the city payroll at all — let alone allowed to work inside playgrounds — is a mystery. He has 15 arrests on his rap sheet dating back to 2003, and in January he was charged with — and pled guilty to — twice grabbing the butt of a woman walking near the same park, cops said.
“Why was he placed in a playground?” asked a woman who witnessed the May 1 incident inside the park. “I teach my children that if they get in trouble in a public place to look for someone in a uniform, and the idea that they could have gone to him is horrifying.”
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The mom of two said the sordid events unfolded on a peaceful Saturday morning as about 15 people were enjoying an outdoor Zumba class at the park’s Anne Loftus Playground.
As the instructors led the class from a park building patio, Soto walked out of the building in a jacket which said “staff” and started moving to the beat.
“He was sort of dancing, gesturing to the music,” the witness said. “Everyone sort of laughed. The teachers were good natured about it.”
They ushered Soto away gently, but then he came back.
“I noticed he was focusing on one of the teachers who was a female. He was staring at her in a way that made me uncomfortable,” she said. “He was sort of walking around after her in a menacing way.”
Soto was shooed away again, but didn’t go far. He wandered over to a nearby set of swings for babies and toddlers.
“He took his penis out of his pants,” the witness claimed. “I saw him take it out and start swinging it around and gesturing, lewdly. Crude gestures. Sexual gestures toward a mother and her toddler on the swings.”
He was calling out to the mom to try to get her attention, the witness said.
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