As his wife sobbed and his 9-year-old son watched, a Connecticut dad yesterday was held in lieu of a $200,000 bond on charges of sex abuse and child endangerment for allegedly turning a class trip to Manhattan into a gropefest.
Tomas Manzano, 35, was chaperoning his son and other Stamford fifth-graders last Wednesday, but spent the bus ride to the city swilling vodka and fondling six girls, officials charge.
In Manhattan Criminal Court, his lawyer, Paul Petrus, insisted, “Nothing occurred that day.”