Posted on 05/13/2005 2:20:50 PM PDT by NonValueAdded
PALM BAY, Fla. -- A Palm Bay girl was attacked on her way to school Friday morning. She told police a man with a knife chased her into some woods and tried to assault her. That man is still on the run.
Police said the 13-year-old girl was walking to her middle school when she noticed a man in a truck was following her and pulled off of the road. She turned onto a side street and she said he actually jumped out and chased her into nearby woods. That's where, she said, the man pulled a knife and tried to sexually assault her.
The girl said she was kicking and screaming and he eventually ran off. She went home and her father called 9-1-1.
Police said the girl did have some defensive cuts on her forearms, but she was not sexually assaulted.
Police searched, but did not find the knife. They also put out a vehicle description for an old rusted blue work truck driven by an older man with a scruffy white beard. They also notified school resource officers and went door to door.
Some of the neighbors were even driving around looking for the truck. They said they've seen it in the area before.
ping
Yup
I guess you conclude they were self-inflicted cuts.
It's not PC to identify the race when the perp is non-white.
After mulling it a bit, I'll place my bet that this is real.
Maybe you all could point back in a few days to your comments about this being a hoax and pat yourselves on the back. But right now there is more objective evidence that WWJB is a troll than there is about this being a hoax. Think about it ... sign up date yesterday, admits in a post to watching PBS, suddenly appears on the scene, posting like an old pro. Hmmmm, could be a troll trying to establish a conservative persona. Howdaya like them apples?
http://www3.fdle.state.fl.us/sexual_predators/OffenderFlyer.asp?keys=46557
I would say that guy is right on the top of the list unless there is more to the description than published. Nice find. That pic goes on the dashboard.
Florida again!
How ridiculous! They did get the baby back safely.
Swedish-born celebrities Ingemar Johannsen and Ann-Margret (Olsson) have naturally black hair (although Ann-Margret's has probably turned gray under all that red dye by now).
Real easy to say that, isn't it?
Seriously, I'm not looking for a flame war (but can give as good as I get), we in the neighborhood take this very [expletive] seriously and if you look at post #28, you will see that there are creeps like that one in the area who fit the description. Telling parents who are trying to mobilize the extended neighborhood that it is a hoax is a decidedly bad move.
It's no hoax, unless "defensive cuts" is a false report.
Doesn't quite sound right to me either.
This poor girl has had quite a scare. Now I hope that the parents of Florida will have a talk with their children and tell them that what she did was exactly wrong, and that this situation could have ended in a very different way. She should not have turned off the main street onto a less-travelled side street, and she should not have run into a wooded area. If he was in a truck all she had to do was stay on the main street and turn around to run, rather than running into woods where he had the freedom and privacy to try to assault her. She should have screamed "NINE ONE ONE" on the street, rather than calling for help, which doesn't attract much attention. And depending on who lived nearby, she could have run into a neighbor's house. But not into the woods!
Leni
Troll?
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