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Girl, 12, threatened; police search for suspect

The Winnipeg Police Service Sex Crimes Unit is investigating after a 12-year-old girl was threatened.

The girl was walking near Riverton Avenue and Brazier Street Thursday at about 8 p.m. when a stranger came up to her and said he’d hurt her if she didn’t do what he wanted.

The man then held the girl, before she managed to run away to safety. She was not hurt physically in the incident.

Police are now looking for a bald black man is his thirties. He had a goatee and is about 5’7 or 5’8.

He had a heavy build and wore a green jersey with yellow sleeves and black sweat pants.

Anyone with information can call the Sex Crimes Unit at 986-6245 or Crime Stoppers at 786-8377 (TIPS).

Gabrielle.giroday@freepress.mb.ca

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