He patted a woman’s pubic area.

Shalom Rabbi and Happy Holidays,
In Tractate Berakhot 24, it is written:
Rabbi Yitzchak said: He touched a woman’s private parts. For what? Or for her to be silent – and did Rav Sheshet say: Why did the scripture include the outer jewelry with the inner jewelry – to tell you: Whoever looks at a woman’s little finger is as if he is looking at the place of the torah! Rather: at his wife, and for the reading of the Shema. Rav Chisda said:
In other words, seemingly the entire division between a mere fingertip and a fingertip (which is not a fingertip) is a division that has a nefkom only in his wife, but in a woman who is not his wife, this division has no meaning (i.e., a little finger is equivalent to a torf in terms of severity). According to this, what is the logic in the laws of modesty for women to cover their fingertip, what do you think? If there is a matter of covering a fingertip, they should also cover a fingertip that is not a fingertip (like a little finger), and if there is no matter of covering a little finger, then there is no matter of covering the place of the torf either (since they are equal in severity). It could be argued that this stems from the prohibition of reciting Kash against the fingertip, but all of this is only during the time of the Shema, which people usually recite in the synagogue where there are no women against them, while at other times, there is no matter of not being against the fingertip.