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Man Arrested For Molesting 11-Year-Old Girl At JC Penney

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Nikolaos Willmore (Facebook via the Daily News)
Lighting designer Nikolaos Willmore, 44, was arrested yesterday and charged with sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl inside the midtown JC Penney. Police say Willmore followed the victim around the store in the Manhattan Mall on Saturday afternoon and fondled her. The girl then told her mother, who chased Willmore out of the store.

Police were able to identify Willmore from security footage of the store, and charged him with sex abuse, sexual contact with a child younger than 14 and endangering the welfare of a child. He had been charged from prior arrests last year with assault, aggravated harassment and two counts of criminal mischief.

Willmore says he graduated from Columbia University in 1995 with a PhD. in Chemistry and apparently he still lives in Columbia housing. He now runs a science-inspired lighting design business.

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  • There is a bigger chance of him repeating his act again, i don`t knw why he has been allow to leave and even runs a science-inspired lighting design business..

  • tessey

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  • mslioness

    is that a lubricant tube in his hand?

  • Kelles

    Is he wearing his glove on his head??? Ok now I see part of the problem...

  • Guest

    just noticed that it is a glove. hahahahaha

  • Kelles

    Hey 3! I think commenter tessey (reply no.24) has left you a note!!

  • Guest

    eh, too much work -- she obviously isn't aware of the 'reply' button, she fails to see that an email address is the least important thing in dating, her grammar is worse than mine, she practically posted her email address for the entire planet to see, "co lour" -- just wtf is ka-LOOR??? and so on.

  • Radbecca

    According to my sources, he'd rent his spare room out for next to nothing.

  • freddynyc

    That's the first time I've ever seen a white guy with a doo-rag...

  • John L

    Sicko!

    Needs to go straight to jail!

    I hear the inmates at Rikers have wonderful support groups for child molesters.

  • JacqueMehoff

    another feelgood day. he's going to be on that sex offender registry for a long long time.

    a guy who uses a leica going to JCP? mon dieu!

    take a picture it will last longer.

  • Radbecca

    From his FB wall:

    Bar Culture idiots tell me I should "get over" my "X" girlfriend. Uh...which one? All of them...EVIDENTLY! Just STOP thinking about them. As in just stop thinking about my PAST. "All we have is the blessed present!" Uh huh. If you could *hear* the mashup song I am right now listening to you would start dancing. Forget ...my own past? Forget my LIFE?

    FUCK YOU!!!

    You cannot steal my life from me. My past is my self. My past was good. My past was not bad. YOUR past was bad. My past was not bad. Your past was bad. My PAST will LAST, since I took Leica photographs of it as it was HAPPENING. My past was a blast. My present is god sent.

    Telling me to FORGET about my ex girlfriends is akin to telling me to FORGET about my dead FATHER. Telling me to do that amounts to fighting words, idiot! You do NOT have the right to so deeply INSULT my loved ones with motivation to erase them from history.

  • reading that hurt my head. I was going to say something about innocent until proven guilty, but frankly after reading that, I'm ready to convict him. what a pyscho.

  • Guest

    i guess he didn't know how to let go of the hurt. letting go of the past and letting go of the hurt are two independent and exclusive statements.

    remember the past, let go of the hurt.

  • Guest

    dude, for the life of me i still can't even remember the last names of my first few girlfriends, and they were all awesome. it's quite embarrassing, actually.

  • hotstepper

    stud.

  • Guest

    you don't understand the incredibly massive hurt it's caused me. one of them was from canada and it's gotten so bad to the point that i like everything about canada now. i feel so un-american. :(

  • robingee

    Sounds like the "X" girlfriends dodged a pretty big bullet there. Too bad he had to take it out on some poor pre-teen girl. I hope she kicked him in the nards.

  • Oxford

    whoa. psychotic break much?

  • Radbecca

    Ooof! Meant for the entire quote to be in italics.

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