Police seek man in girl’s abduction
A man who lured a 6-year-old girl into his car by telling her she could play with his skateboard is being sought in connection with the child’s abduction and rape, police said today.
The girl was with a 9-year-old playmate in the courtyard of her apartment complex in the 300 block of N. San Antonio Avenue on Thursday evening. A clean-shaven man in a gray-hooded sweatshirt approached the children and spoke to them in Spanish, police said.
The 9-year-old refused to go, but the younger child followed him to a parking lot in the rear of the apartment complex and got into the car, police said. The man drove to a nearby residential street, sexually assaulted her and dropped her off two blocks from the apartment.
The girl walked home and told her mother, and was taken to San Antonio Community Hospital in Upland.
The attacker was described as Latino with a thin build, 5 feet 6 inches tall and 38 to 45 years old. Police said they are preparing a composite sketch.
The car was described as a gray four-door sedan with a matching interior.
Anyone with information should call Ontario police at (909) 395-2833 or (909) 395-2001 or anonymously at WeTip, (800) 78-CRIME.
-- Andrew Blankstein
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