6 THE COURIER SUN • OCTOBER 17, 2013 FOR BREAKING NEWS VISIT www.couriersun.com SEARCH FOR PERP BY MAGGIE HAYES [email protected] Police are looking for a perp accused of committing a criminal sex act against a 12-year-old girl in Ozone Park. Three girls were talking at the corner of 116th Avenue and Lincoln Street on October 13, said a resident whose home security cameras caught the incident. “The gentleman pulled up in an SUV, stopped, got out of the vehicle and approached the three girls,” said the resident, who declined to give his name. “They spoke for about fi ve or six minutes.” Two of the young girls left and one stayed. Cameras show the girl “willingly” got into the perp’s car around 2:30 p.m., and he drove off down 116th Avenue. Police said the suspect then drove to a nearby location where he exposed himself to the girl and sexually attacked her. The 12-year-old victim then got out of the car and ran to a nearby friend’s house, who called 9-1-1. She was then brought to Queens General Hospital where she was treated and released. “I have two daughters of my own,” said the resident, who has a 13 and a 15-year-old. “I’m scared to death. I drove my girls to school.” “I always tell them, ‘Don’t walk to the curb, someone could pull up and grab you,’” he said. A woman waiting for the bus near the corner where the incident occurred said some days she sees a man slowly driving by, attempting to talk to girls waiting for the bus. He then crosses the intersection and waits on the other side for a few minutes before driving away, she alleges. The suspect is a black male, estimated to be in his 20s, 6’ tall with black hair, brown eyes and a scruffy beard. He was last seen wearing blue jeans, a white undershirt, red jacket, red sneakers, a red and white baseball cap and a silver chain hanging to his waist. He was driving a silver, four-door SUV. Anyone with information is asked to call Crime Stoppers at 800-577-TIPS. All calls are strictly confi dential. Cops pull back on park patrols BY CRISTABELLE TUMOLA [email protected] The NYPD is pulling back some of its police presence in Forest Park months after beefi ng up patrols following an August rape cops connected to fi ve other sexual assaults in the park between March 2011 and this summer. Police decided to remove eight cop cars that were patrolling the area after there were no additional sex crimes reported in the six weeks following the rape, the 102nd Precinct’s commanding offi cer, Henry Sautner, said at the most recent Community Board 9 (CB9) meeting. He said the resources for the coverage could not be maintained on an ongoing basis. Sautner said there will still be two offi cers assigned to patrol the park. They are also utilizing auxiliary offi cers through their 56-member auxiliary program, with two to three operations per week in Forest Park. “They’re the police offi cers and I believe they know best what they are doing,” said Mary Ann Carey, CB9 District Manager. But Carey said she would like to see more park enforcement patrol (PEP) offi cers, for which the community has been lobbying. A Parks Department spokesperson said this fall new PEP substations in Forest Park and in Rockaway will be opening “allowing them to more easily patrol the parks of western and southern Queens, respectively.” The substations, said the spokesperson, were made possible due to Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Fiscal Year 2014 budget, which also doubled the amount of cityfunded PEP offi cers that are available for patrols. Five Towns College Final Enrollment Days Now Through September 6 Hurry! 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