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FBI PROFILE RELEASED IN SIMI SEX ATTACKS.


Byline: Daily News Staff and Wire

A series of sexual assaults has prompted police to issue a detailed behavioral profile of the rapist rap·ist  
n.
One who commits rape.

Noun 1. rapist - someone who forces another to have sexual intercourse
raper

aggressor, assailant, assaulter, attacker - someone who attacks
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The suspect, described only as a white male, is believed to be responsible for sexual assaults against four young women since September. The latest attack occurred June 14.

According to according to
prep.
1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians.

2. In keeping with: according to instructions.

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 a profile developed by the FBI and state Department of Justice, the rapist is a loner loner Psychiatry A single young man estranged from society and family, who suffers from psychogenic pain, and tends to live 'on the edge', vacillating between aggression and depression; loners often have unrealistic goals, but are unable to work towards those goals  in his late 20s who is probably single and who has never had successful relationships with women his own age.

He likely works or attends school during the day, and would not be viewed by others as a ``typical'' sex offender sex offender n. generic term for all persons convicted of crimes involving sex, including rape, molestation, sexual harassment and pornography production or distribution. , authorities say.

Authorities say he may be following his own crimes in the news, and also might offer explanations or speculate to others on reasons for the assaults.

Police detectives asked the agencies for the profile after noticing a pattern in the attacks: The rapist enters the home where people, sometimes several, are sleeping, and rapes or tries to assault a woman.

Police warned residents to lock their doors and windows because in at least two of the cases, the rapist came in through an unlocked entrance.
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Publication:Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Date:Jul 15, 1997
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