Man, 44, charged with lewd conduct

A Centerport man was arrested Monday night and charged with lewd conduct after he exposed himself on two occasions to groups of 12-year-old girls in Seaford, police said Tuesday.

Martin Fishkind, 44, was arrested at his 101 Fort Salonga Rd. home at 7:30 p.m. Monday after a witness saw his license plate number during one of the lewd incidents, Nassau police said.

Fishkind is scheduled for arraignment Tuesday on two counts each of public lewdness and endangering the welfare of a child.

He exposed himself to the girls on two different afternoons in late December, in both cases in Seaford, using the ruse of asking the girls for directions, police said.

On Dec. 28, a Sunday, Fishkind was in a green Ford Explorer on Raymond Street near Cecilia Place in Seaford when he drove up to a group of three girls and asked directions, Nassau police said. Fishkind drove off after one of the girls saw his genitals exposed, police said.

Two days later on Franklin Avenue near Washington Avenue in Seaford, again in his Ford Explorer, he asked a group of three girls for directions. When one of the girls saw him expose himself "she ran screaming from his vehicle to a witness who was able to obtain the defendant's license plate number," Nassau police Seventh Squad detectives said in a Tuesday report.

Fishkind is scheduled to appear at First District Court, Hempstead, to face the charges.

By JOSEPH MALLIA
Posted Tuesday, January 6, 2009

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