View full sizeAnthony Cummings, who was convicted on sex abuse charges in 1992, has been living on St. Mary's Avenue in Rosebank.
STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. -- A convicted child molester living in Rosebank has once again been accused of sexually abusing a young girl — the 9-year-old daughter of his girlfriend.
Police on Monday arrested Anthony Cummings, 42, of St. Mary’s Avenue.
Cummings, police allege, fondled the 9-year-old girl on three different occasions.
The girl reported the incidents to someone other than her mother, a police source said, who contacted the city’s Administration for Children’s Services.
That sparked an investigation by the NYPD’s Staten Island Special Victims Squad, and Cummings' arrest by Det. William Wasson.
Police charged Cummings with three counts each of first-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a child.
Prosecutors expect him to be drawn up on formal charges in Stapleton Criminal Court Wednesday, said William J. Smith, a spokesman for District Attorney Daniel Donovan.
Cummings has a lifetime spot on the state’s sex offender registry, after his conviction on first-degree attempted sexual abuse charges in 1992 in Manhattan.
The victim in that case was a 6-year-old girl, public records show.
He was sentenced to 18 months to three years in prison in that case, and was conditionally released to parole after serving two years and nine months.
Cummings has served two additional stints in prison for drug-related convictions in Manhattan in 1990 and 1995.
The top charge against Cummings, first-degree sexual abuse, carries a sentence of two to seven years in prison if he’s convicted at trial.
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