Man molests 4 schoolgirls in Osaka
OSAKA -- A man molested four
elementary school girls here on their way home from school Thursday
afternoon, police said Friday.
Local police suspect that the same man appearing to be in his 30s
is responsible for all four cases, and are searching for him on
suspicion of indent assault.
At around 3 p.m., a man approached a 7-year-old, first-year
elementary school girl from behind in a landing of a stairway at a
city-run apartment complex in the Kirehigashi district of
Hirano-ku, and fondled her body, police said.
Shortly after the incident, a 7-year-old, second-year elementary
schoolgirl was fondled by a man on the premises of the same
apartment complex.
Two similar incidents occurred near a shrine about a kilometer away
from the complex, and at another city-run apartment complex some
two kilometers away from the first incident scene.
The victims have described the man as being about 175 centimeters
tall, wearing glasses and a black jacket, police said. (Compiled
from Mainichi and wire reports, Japan, Jan. 30, 2004)
