NEW YORK – Police are looking for a man who groped an 8-year-old girl while looking for toys at a Five Below store on Fifth Avenue in Brooklyn over the weekend, authorities said Monday.
According to police, the girl and her mother were at the discount chain around 3:45 pm on Sunday. The girl was checking some toys when the police say the man approached her.
He allegedly started a conversation with the girl and the two bent over the toys to pick them up, police said. It was then that the man groped the girl. His mother confronted him and he ran away.
No injuries were reported.
Police released the suspect’s surveillance video (above).
Anyone with information should contact the police or call Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (English) or for Spanish at 1-888-57-PISTA.
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