LAKE GEORGE -- A 20-year-old foreign student from Kazakhstan was arrested on Thursday after police said he inappropriately touched children at the Magic Forest amusement park, according to a Warren County Sheriff's Office press release.

Zhandos Bakytbekuly, of Kazakhstan, was charged with two counts of second-degree sexual abuse, both misdemeanors, and was ordered to surrender his passport, according to the release.

He had been employed at Magic Forest for the last month-and-a-half and was set to leave the U.S. on Sunday, police said.

The 20-year-old was in the U.S. as part of a work exchange program, police said.

Bakytbekuly was arrested after two 11-year-olds at the park told police that a male ride operator touched their genital area while they were waiting to get on a ride, according to police.

Bakytbekuly was arraigned in Lake George Town Court on Friday and sent to the Warren County Jail in lieu of $25,000 cash bail or $50,000 bail bond.

He was ordered to appear again in court in September.

Warren County Sheriff's Officer Jesse Wittenberg and Investigators Christopher Hatin and Maurice Aldrich investigated the incident.

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