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Police continue to search for assault suspect

Brett Swanson
Brett Swanson

ASU Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man who assaulted a 9-year-old girl Thursday at ASU Gammage.

Police describe the man as bald, dark-skinned, in his mid-40s and 5 feet 4 inches tall.

According to a police report, a father dropped off his daughter and son at Gammage for piano lessons; afterward, while inside the building, the man approached the girl, led her into a stairwell and lifted up the back of her dress.

ASU Police were notified by the girl’s father on Friday and were able to speak to the girl. Police reported she was on her way to the classroom when the man asked where she was going. She told the man room W212, to which the man said he knew where the room was and told her to follow him.

According to the report, the girl said she “felt scared, nervous, and thought the man may hurt her because he was a stranger and leading her away from her known class location.”

The girl said she started to walk back up the stairs when the man said, “something is crawling up your skirt,” and then lifted the skirt up to her waist and said, “bend over,” police reported.

The girl continued to walk up the stairs but the man only followed her for a few steps before exiting out the first floor exit, according to the report. The police asked her if the man touched her but she said he didn’t and that the only person she told about the incident was her father.

The girl told police she could positively identify the man and the father would aid in the prosecution. Police have a description of the male of being a heavy-set Hispanic or African American with a bald head and approximately 45 years of age. He was last seen wearing a yellow t-shirt, blue jeans and white tennis shoes with no discernable markings on his body.

Reach the reporter at sraymund@asu.edu

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