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07/19/2005 14:17:41 EST Girl Sexually Assaulted at Fla. Theme Park
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a Universal Studios hotel by a man who followed her into an elevator, authorities said Tuesday.
No immediate arrests were made.
Sheriff's Sgt. Rich Mankewich said man followed the girl, who was alone and looking for her mother, from the parking lot into the Enclave Suites on Monday night. A room key is required to enter the hotel, but Mankewich said the man slipped in behind her.
Once on the elevator, the attacker groped the girl over her shorts, investigators said.
The girl told investigators she bit the man after he put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. She pushed the emergency button and ran out when the elevator stopped, Mankewich said.
The girl was from Ukraine and had recently arrived in the United States with her family. Investigators said she had taken a self-defense course just two weeks ago, which police credited with helping her end the attack.
Investigators distributed security camera photographs of the man leaving the elevator. There was no camera in the elevator itself.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
07/19/2005 14:17:41 EST Girl Sexually Assaulted at Fla. Theme Park
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a Universal Studios hotel by a man who followed her into an elevator, authorities said Tuesday.
No immediate arrests were made.
Sheriff's Sgt. Rich Mankewich said man followed the girl, who was alone and looking for her mother, from the parking lot into the Enclave Suites on Monday night. A room key is required to enter the hotel, but Mankewich said the man slipped in behind her.
Once on the elevator, the attacker groped the girl over her shorts, investigators said.
The girl told investigators she bit the man after he put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. She pushed the emergency button and ran out when the elevator stopped, Mankewich said.
The girl was from Ukraine and had recently arrived in the United States with her family. Investigators said she had taken a self-defense course just two weeks ago, which police credited with helping her end the attack.
Investigators distributed security camera photographs of the man leaving the elevator. There was no camera in the elevator itself.
Copyright 2005 Associated Press. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
