Alleged West Bridgewater Flasher Acquitted in 2011 Sexual Assault Case
A West Bridgewater man is under arrest after police say he exposed himself in front of several people on Tuesday. Yousef Hashem, 21, was arrested by East Bridgewater Police and charged with two counts of open and gross lewdness and three counts of accosting a person of the opposite sex, according to East Bridgewater Police.
According to police, they received a call about a man in a Honda Odyssey minivan who exposed himself to two girls. The victims described the suspect.
From an East Bridgewater police statement:
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In 2011, Hashem was involved in a sexual assault case in Salem, where police charged him with
groping a teenage girl during the annual Halloween festival Haunted Happenings. At the time of the alleged incident, the girl’s father and a group of bystanders chased and caught a fleeing Hashem. He was later cleared of all charges by a Salem jury, according to The Salem News.
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