More held for NY sex attacks

New York - Videotape, photographs and tips have helped police arrest at least 13 men on charges of sexually abusing scores of…

New York - Videotape, photographs and tips have helped police arrest at least 13 men on charges of sexually abusing scores of women in a rampage on Sunday through New York City's Central Park, city officials said yesterday.

Police said they believed they had caught the instigator of the attacks, an 18-year-old New York man who was among as many as 50 who sprayed women with water, tore off their clothes and groped their breasts and genital area.

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