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 Posted - 10/01/2003 : 09:01:34 AM
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Oct 1 2003
The New York Post
Staten Island, NY -- A fiend brazenly tried to kidnap two young Staten Island girls on their way to school yesterday, but the separate attacks were thwarted when the kids broke free, said cops.
The first incident occurred at 7 a.m. on the corner of Burnside and Jewett avenues, in the middle-class neighborhood of Westerleigh, where four children were waiting for their bus to Intermediate School 51.
An olive-skinned man in his late 20s or early 30s grabbed an 11-year-old girl at the stop, where a bus driver and a school safety agent passing by yelled at the assailant, said Assistant Police Chief William Calhoun.
Calhoun said that the girl managed to get free of the man, who is believed to have had a knife.
Just 40 minutes later, at the corner of Charleston and Winant avenues in the Rossville neighborhood, someone believed to be the same man struck again, trying to snatch a 13-year-old girl, police said.
The girl was walking through a park in a residential neighborhood on her way to a school bus stop when an olive-skinned man wearing a ski mask lunged at her, Calhoun said.
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