GIRL, 10, RAPED IN THEATER ASSAILANT FLED AFTER ATTACK AT CINEMARK.Byline: CHARLES F. BOSTWICK Staff Writer PALMDALE -- A 10-year-old girl was raped at the Antelope Valley Mall The Antelope Valley Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Palmdale, California. Opened in September, 1990, its buildings take up around 1 million square feet (90,000 m²). Its physical main building, parking lots, and ring road businesses encompass an area a bit less than 0. by a middle-age man who pulled her into an unoccupied movie theater, deputies said Wednesday. The girl was in a Cinemark Movies 10 hallway about 1:30 p.m. Tuesday when the man accosted ac·cost tr.v. ac·cost·ed, ac·cost·ing, ac·costs 1. To approach and speak to boldly or aggressively, as with a demand or request. 2. To solicit for sex. her, forcing her into an empty theater and verbally threatening her, deputies said. ``He grabbed her in the hallway and escorted her into an empty theater and assaulted her behind the movie screen,'' Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Sheriff's Sgt. Dan Scott ''This article or section is being rewritten at Daniel "Dan" Robert Scott is a fictional character on the television show One Tree Hill played by Paul Johansson. ''I should apologize. But I won't. said. ``He fled out a back door and left her in the theater.'' Wednesday, detectives released an artist's sketch sketch, a rapidly executed kind of pictorial note-taking. The sketch is not usually intended as an autonomous work of art, although many have been considered masterpieces in their own right. of the assailant, a middle-age African-American man with short black hair and a graying mustache. Detectives described the assailant as 35 to 45 years old, about 5 feet, 9 inches tall and weighing about 180 pounds. They said he wore a white T-shirt with an unknown logo and dark blue warm-up pants with white stripes down the legs. Anyone with more information on the assailant is asked to call the Sheriff's Department's Special Victim's Bureau at (866) 247-5877 or the Palmdale sheriff's station at (661) 272-2400. chuck.bostwick(at)dailynews.com (661) 267-5742 CAPTION(S): photo Photo: no caption (composite sketch of suspect) |
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