Police investigating child sex assault in Kensington
A 6-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Kensington, police said, and officials in the Special Victims Unit were investigating the incident Thursday evening.
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A 6-year-old girl was sexually assaulted in Kensington, police said, and officials in the Special Victims Unit were investigating the incident Thursday evening.
The assault was reported around 2:45 p.m., police said. Around 10:30 p.m., police in the Special Victims Unit were questioning a person of interest, but said no arrests were made.
Officials in the Special Victims Unit were unsure if the girl knew the man who assaulted her. The girl was approached by a man depicted in surveillance images released by police at a corner store on E and Tioga streets, police said.
Neighbors said she had walked alone from her home on nearby Rorer Street to the store.
Police describe the suspect as a black man in his early 20s who is about 6 feet tall and has a tattoo of a star beneath one or both of his eyes. He was wearing a brown Carhartt jacket, a white T-shirt and blue jeans. Police released a surveillance still of a man wanted for questioning in connection with the sexual assault just after 6 p.m. Thursday.
Tipsters are asked to call the Special Victims Unit at 215-685-3251 or 215-686-TIPS.