NEW YORK (AP)  -- A New York City police officer was arraigned Friday on charges of sexually abusing one woman and trying to force another to have sex with him, the Manhattan district attorney's office said.

Prosecutors said Wilfredo Rosario, assigned to Harlem's 26th Precinct, attacked a 27-year-old woman after offering to help her get a job as a school crossing guard and get her son into after-school programs.

The officer's lawyer, John Tynan, did not immediately return a call for comment.

Rosario, in his police uniform, first encountered the woman on March 26, prosecutors said. They said he took her address and telephone number, and on March 30, while off duty, went to her home, picked her up and drove to a secluded area along Riverside Drive where he sexually abused her.

The woman tried to get out of the car, but Rosario grabbed her and snatched her back in, prosecutors said. They said he sexually abused her again before finally taking her home.

While investigating that incident, prosecutors said, investigators learned that in March 2002 Rosario attempted to force a then-18-year-old woman to have sex with him.

The police officer had found the teen and a male friend in Riverside Park after the park had closed, prosecutors said. They said he told the young woman he would let her go home, not tell her parents and not give her a summons if she had sex with him, but the young woman rejected his offer.

Rosario was arraigned Friday on an indictment that charges him with first-degree sexual abuse, which is punishable by up to seven years in prison. The indictment also charges him with official misconduct, unlawful imprisonment and attempted coercion, all misdemeanors.

State Supreme Court Justice Daniel FitzGerald set his bail at $10,000 and scheduled his next court appearance for April 22.

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