Genoa Twp. issues warning on man who approached girls

News Staff Reports

The Genoa Town­ship Police Depart­ment reported an inci­dent involv­ing a man who approached a group of mid­dle school aged girls in a park.

The girls were play­ing in a park located at the cor­ner of Wil­low Bend Lane and Lyn­brook Way between the hours of 8 and 9 p.m. Fri­day, Novem­ber 9. The girls said a man pulled up beside the park, and approached them, the police reported. They said he asked them what their ages were and where they lived. The girls then ran from the park to a nearby house, how­ever no one was home. They stated the male fol­lowed them in his vehi­cle and was curs­ing and yelling pro­fan­i­ties at them. They ran to a sec­ond home and before any­one came to the door, the sub­ject had left the area.

The girls were not able to give a good descrip­tion of the male, other than he was wear­ing black sweat­pants, a black hooded sweat­shirt, with the hood pulled up over his head, par­tially cov­er­ing his face. He was also described as wear­ing dark sunglasses.

The male was dri­ving an older model bur­gundy car with tinted win­dows. The girls also stated the vehicle’s paint was chipped and appeared that it had been hit a few times.

The Genoa Police rec­om­mends that every­one dis­cuss with their chil­dren how to react when approached by strangers, not­ing the girls in this inci­dent did the right thing by run­ning away to find other adults. It would also be OK, if the youth have cell phones, to call 911 in sit­u­a­tions like these and to make sure they tell their par­ents immediately.

Posted by Gary Henery on Nov 14 2012. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS Feed. Both comments and pings are currently closed.