Teen busted for my bad NYC subway grope is a Yale student who once rallied against sexual harrassment training
A teenager busted for allegedly groping a woman with kids on the subway and saying “my bad” is a Yale student who once rallied against sexual harassment training, sources said Thursday — as his high-profile lawyer insisted he’s innocent and called the victim “unhinged.”Ari Shtein, 18 — who was freed by a judge after being charged with using his fingers to penetrate a 30-year-old victim as a group of kids watched on a Manhattan R train last week — is an aspiring journalist who once wrote an opinion piece calling sex abuse training on the Ivy League campus pointless.“Sometime during our first couple weeks on campus, all freshmen were made to spend an hour and a half in a sex harassment training,” he wrote in the student-run Buckley Beacon newspaper in October. “What exactly was the point of participation in this program…Was there anyone in that room who planned to go around harassing and assaulting their classmates without the understanding that it would be wrong to do so?” he wrote in the article, titled Cut the Fat.“Mandatory sexual misconduct trainings …[are] pretty good at convincing people that comments like ‘you look good in your jeans’ are always inappropriate harassment,” he wrote.The student is originally from Michigan and has retained high-profile attorney, Priya Chaudhry, whose past clients include “Creed III” actor Jonathan Majors and Real Housewife Jen Shah.
She denied the allegations Thursday.“Every strap-hanger has encountered unhinged people on the subway.Unfortunately, when Ari visited our city, it was his turn.
Ari did not assault anyone.He was visiting bookstores with a friend when his life was turned upside down by a woman who falsely accused him of a vile crime,” Chaudhry told The Post Thursday.Shtein is accused of putting two fingers inside the unidentified woman’s vagina as he stood behind her on an uptown R in Chelsea on June 28, according to police. “My bad, didn’t know you were going to ...