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May 2021
Police are appealing for witnesses after an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted on Harrogate's King's Road on Tuesday.
The victim, an 11-year-old girl, was making her way home from school at about 3.15pm.
As she approached the junction with Chatsworth Grove, a man approached from behind and placed one hand on her hip and another hand on her waist and made a sexually inappropriate comment to her.
The girl ran away and arrived home upset and shaken.
It occurred just a day after a woman died suddenly in a similar location on King's Road.
North Yorkshire Police described the girl's attacker as white, in his 40s, around 5ft 8 with dark, greying hair that was short on one side but longer on the other.
He also has a distinctive mole above his right eyebrow.
He was wearing a red jumper, khaki coloured trousers and black Nike trainers with white laces. The girl said he had a rough Yorkshire accent.
Sergeant Sellars added incidents like this were "rare in North Yorkshire", adding:
Police said in a statement they were keen to speak to anyone who was in the area of Kings Road and Chatsworth Grove at 3.15pm who may have witnessed the incident, or anyone who recognises the description of the man.
Anyone with information can dial 101, select option 2 and speak to the force control room quoting reference 12210125274.
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