WASHINGTON — Police said a 16-year-old girl was grabbed and fondled by a man she didn’t know as she walked home from school in Arlington, Virginia on Friday afternoon.
Police said the incident occurred on a sidewalk along the 2600 block of Arlington Boulevard (Route 50), in the Lyon Park neighborhood at around 3:30 p.m. Police said a man approached her, put his hand up her skirt and touched her inappropriately.
Arlington County police spokeswoman Ashley Savage said the girl “screamed, and the man ran off on foot.”
Police said no one else who was in the area to see the incident happen.
“This wasn’t somebody she knew and this was not in any way any type of consensual contact between the two individuals,” Savage said. “This was a very brazen thing to do to somebody who was just walking down the street.”
The man, who faces charges of sexual battery, was described as a Hispanic male in his 40s, who is 5-feet and four inches tall with a thin build. Savage said he was wearing a white hat and shirt with brown work pants and may have been a construction worker in the area.
