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POLICE will check information gathered from a spate of attempted child abductions against known pedophiles in an attempt to catch the child snatchers who may be stalking Sydney's suburbs. New South Wales Police Commissioner Ken Moroney today said he had directed detectives, forensic experts and intelligence analysts to help local officers investigate four claims of attempted kidnapping in Sydney in the past week. Four children, aged between five and 17, have reported being victims of abduction attempts across Sydney since Wednesday. "What I'm looking to do is correlate all the information that we have in terms of the investigation, in terms of any forensics that might exist, in terms of the analysis of each individual allegation," Mr Moroney said today. "Then (we will) look at the Child Protection Offender Register to see how and where all of these things marry up as guides to where these people might exist and indeed as to who they might be." Mr Moroney said officers would look back over the past two years of similar offences to determine whether any patterns exist. He said the offences appeared to be simply a cluster of events, but police would "knock on doors" of child sex offenders on the register in their attempts to find the snatchers. "To use old police terminology, (we will) tug on a few coats to indicate clearly to them that we know who they are and where they are living ... I don't apologise for that, we are out there to protect these kids." AAP (2-8-2005) |
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POLICE fear up to six child snatchers may be at large in Sydney following four abduction attempts in less than a week. Chief Inspector Colin Green appealed today for the public's help in tracking down the latest would-be abductor, a man in his 20s, who struck in south-west Sydney yesterday. Police said the man grabbed a 17-year-old girl from behind on Chiswick Rd at Greenacre and threatened her before dragging her into his car in broad daylight. He pinned her to the passenger seat with one arm and drove off, steering his car with the other hand, Insp Green said. But the girl wrestled free of the man's grip and escaped when he stopped the car at traffic lights on Boronia Road, a short distance from where she was taken about 3.30pm (AEST). No weapon was used in the attack and the girl escaped injury. Insp Green today ruled out any connection between the abduction and three others in Sydney since last Wednesday. Police had earlier said those three incidents were unrelated. No arrests have been made. "There is no pattern," Insp Green said today. "This incident is not linked to any others at this stage." An 11-year-old boy narrowly escaped abduction in south-west Sydney last Thursday. Earlier that day, a five-year-old girl escaped unharmed after being grabbed by a man near her home on Sydney's lower North Shore. On Wednesday, a 10-year-old girl was grabbed but struggled free as she walked home from school in north-west Sydney. The boy was walking along Guildford Rd towards the Woodville Rd intersection about 3pm on Thursday, when a car carrying three men stopped beside him. One man grabbed the boy's backpack and tried to pull him into the car. But the boy kicked out, escaped and ran home. An hour-and-a-half later, a man grabbed a five-year-old girl by the ankle as she played with her 11-year-old sister near their unit block on Sydney Road, Balgowlah. Taking her behind a parked car, the man asked the girl to go with him and put his hand over her mouth when she started to scream, police said. The girl escaped and the man ran off. On Wednesday, a 10-year-old Baulkham Hills girl was crossing the intersection of Katherine and Peter streets about 3.15pm when she turned to face a man, who put his hand on her mouth, police said. She escaped and ran to her home a short distance away. AAP (1-8-2005) Paul Carter |
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POLICE have issued descriptions of two men they say may be involved in a recent string of child abduction attempts in Sydney. A police dragnet for child-snatchers had already been launched when a new claim of an abduction attempt emerged today, following at least three reports of failed kidnappings in the city in the past week. In the latest attempt, two 10-year-old girls said they were stalked by a man of similar appearance to an attacker of a girl in their north-west Sydney suburb. The two girls in the claim announced today were confronted in Baulkham Hills four days before the other girl, also aged 10, was grabbed in the same suburb last Wednesday, police said. The girl, who was walking home alone from school, was snatched about 3.15pm but she struggled free of the man, whom she said was aged about 35 and was wearing brown work boots. He was described as 175cm tall, of medium build with olive skin and possibly with facial hair. At the time, he was wearing a red flannelette shirt, light blue tracksuit pants and a bottle-green floppy hat. The two girls who reported to police yesterday said they were stalked by a man of similar age and description at about 3pm on July 23. They avoided their predator, whom they said was driving a yellow utility with green doors and silver-coloured bars, or a silver-coloured rack, over the tray. The new claim takes the total of attempted child abductions in Sydney over the past 12 days back to four, after a 17-year-old girl was charged with public mischief yesterday for inventing an abduction story. Police commissioner Ken Moroney, who has involved himself in the investigation by offering his phone number to field calls, has directed detectives, forensic experts and intelligence analysts to help officers investigate the claims. In another development today, police released an image of a man who tried to pull an 11-year-old boy off a street into car occupied by two more men. He grabbed the boy's backpack in the south-west Sydney suburb of Guildford at about 3pm last Thursday, but the youngster kicked his way free and ran home to tell his parents. The car was described as a late-model sedan, possibly a dark blue Ford Falcon. The child snatcher was described as being of middle-eastern appearance with long wavy black hair, 180cm tall with a long nose and a solid build. He was described as wearing a long-sleeved black woollen jumper. Meanwhile, investigations continue into reports of a fourth abduction attempt. A five-year-old girl said she escaped unharmed after being grabbed by a man near her home in northern Sydney, last Thursday. She said the man grabbed her by the ankle as she played with her 11-year-old sister near their unit block on Sydney Road, Balgowlah. It is believed there is some doubt about the veracity of this claim, but police said they are still investigating. AAP (3-8-2005) Paul Carter |
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