By: Las Vegas Now Staff
Parents are worried about letting their children walk to school in the northwest part of the valley. Twice in just two weeks, girls have been approached by a man. One was sexually assaulted.
But Thursday morning, two girls say they were flashed as they tried to make it to school. Now police may be searching for a pedophile targeting a specific neighborhood in the area of Grand Teton and Buffalo.
Sara Eggert worries her daughter is only the latest victim of a man targeting young girls in their neighborhood.
“I am kind of scared for all the kids around here because both of my kids, and all the kids I know in the neighborhood, have to walk that way to go to school,” she said.
Thursday morning, her daughter and a friend were on their way to school when they say a man started walking near them.
“I thought he lost his dog or something,” said one of the teens.
The girls didn't think to worry until he stopped in front of them.
“He gets in front of us and he stops and then he unzips his pants and he exposes himself to us,” adds the teen. “It was pretty scary. I didn't know what he was going to do next.”
The girls called their parents and then police but both are still shaken.
“It's the worst thing that you can think that is going to happen to one of your kids — that somebody exploits them, takes them, does something to them. That is the worst possible thing that I can think of that can happen to my kids,” said Eggert.
The girls say they always look out for strange people, but the man looked harmless, so they didn't think to worry. Now they want other kids to be warned.
“Be careful, watch what you are doing, watch everything around you and just make sure that you stay together,” said the teen.
The girl's mothers say they both talked with them after this man attacked a girl last week and told them to be extra careful. They want parents to be extra vigilant about talking to their kids and make sure they look out for people around them.
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