"An Appetite for Young Girls"
LAPD Says Sexual Predator Prowls Mid-City
By JOHN CADIZ KLEMACK
Updated 10:45 AM PST, Fri, Nov 6, 2009
The golden hour in Mid City, Los Angeles is 7a-8a weekdays. That's when LAPD says a sexual predator is on the prowl, looking for young girls walking to school alone.
"It appears to us that he has an appetite for young girls," said LAPD Acting Chief Michael Downing, "We need your help to apprehend him."
Over the course of the year, police say he's attacked four young girls. It happened first in February 2008, then April 2008, then not again until July 2009 and most recently, November 4, 2009. And he appears to strike within a three-mile radius.
"I'm very worried, I have two little girls," said Isabela Sosa as she walked her seven-year-old daughter to school Friday. "I tell her not to talk to strangers, to kick, scream, run."
Her daughter's catching on. "I run away or find a grown-up," she said.
LAPD released a sketch of the suspect, four sketches in fact, all of them similar yet slightly different.
First Published: Nov 6, 2009 10:33 AM PST
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