Berwyn Police Blotter
Man warned after being creepily attentive to preschool girl
February 2, 2008, 10:41 AM
Police spoke with the owner of World’s Largest Laundromat, 6246 Cermak, about a man behaving suspiciously with a child. According to laundromat workers, he appeared in the laundromat, without laundry, a few days earlier, got a cup of coffee, and struck up a conversation with a little girl about four or five years old. When the child walked away, the man followed her to the children’s play area, and spoke to her for between five and 10 minutes, even though employees told him more than once the children’s area is off-limits to adults, and not to bother any kids. The man told workers her was just waiting for some things to dry, but left as he had come, without any laundry. The encounter was captured on store surveillance video.
On February 2, the owner called police to report the man had returned. Officers asked him about the incident with the little girl. The man said he vaguely remembered getting a cup of coffee. When asked why he was speaking with a little child, the man said he was sure he did nothing harmful or illegal, but just “loves kids” and was “being nice.” The surveillance video, police felt, showed the conversation between the man and the child to be inappropriate; at one point, the man could be seen kissing the child’s hand. No charges were filed, but workers were told to keep an eye on the 53-year-old man, a resident of the 6300 block of Cermak.
Where was her Mother or Father during all this hand kissing? Troubling.
Posted by on 02/06 at 08:20 PM
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