UK: Man stalks woman, sexually abuses her in front of her minor children
Bolton, Greater Manchester: In a shocking incident, a woman was sexually harassed in front of her minor children in a subway by a man in Greater Manchester's Bolton town. The sexual predator was caught on CCTV footage roaming on an empty street moments before he followed the woman into a subway and sexually assaulted her.
The victim, a mother of two, filed a police complaint following the incident. Investigators are on the lookout for the accused who is on the run.
In the video footage uploaded online, the man can be seen walking on the same stretch of the road a couple of times before he starts following a woman carrying toddlers in a pram.
The victim, who's identity has been kept hidden, said that the accused followed her into a subway and attacked from behind. He pulled down her pants and underwear to her ankles.
In her statement to the police, the victim said that the attacker fled the scene only when she started screaming.
The victim was walking towards from home late in the evening with her two kids when the sex predator tried to harm her.
'He kept stopping and starting, he was looking at a tablet so I just thought he was lost and thought nothing of it,” the victim was quoted as saying.
“Luckily I wasn't harmed, I managed to ring my mum and she came to get me within minutes of it happening. My poor son was upset though,” added the woman.
Although the victim was able to scare off the attacker with her screaming, she said that her children were terrified by the incident.
A case has been registered with the Greater Manchester Police department and further investigations are on. Police officials have released the details of the potential attacker and have urged people to share any information about the accused with them.