TACOMA, Wash. – Police are searching for a man they believe responsible for an attack Monday on two 7-year-old girls.
The man grabbed the girls on a trail in Franklin Park, next to Franklin Elementary, police spokesman Jim Mattheis said.
One girl was able to get away, but the other was sexually assaulted, Mattheis said. Some of the girl’s clothing was removed and she was touched through her clothing, he said.
She was treated Monday at Mary Bridge Children’s Hospital in Tacoma, spokesman Todd Kelly said. He would not comment her condition.
The girls described their attacker as a skinny, white man in his 20’s, about 6 feet tall with yellow-blond hair, Mattheis said. He also was apparently seen fleeing by a crossing guard.
The mother of one of the girls had been walking with them but couldn’t go through the park trail because she had a stroller, Mattheis said. When the girls didn’t meet her on the other side, she started calling for them and apparently scared the attacker away.
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