A man who posed as a Chicago Park District janitor lured a 10-year-old girl to a secluded part of a Northwest Side field house and exposed himself, police said today.
The girl ran away when the man exposed himself and she was not assaulted in the incident at Chopin Park, 3420 N. Long Ave. in the Portage Park neighborhood, about 5:30 p.m. Thursday, according to a police community alert issued today.
While the girl was playing with her younger brother and another boy outside the north end of the park field house, a man came up to them, said he was the park janitor and offered to pay them to help him clean, police said.
The man took the children into the field house by a side door and gave the children dusters he took out of a cleaning closet. He told the boys to clean the stairs to the second floor, and told the girl to clean a stairwell leading to “a secluded basement area,” according to the alert.
The man then stood at the bottom of the stairs and exposed himself to the girl while she was going down the stairs cleaning, according to police. The girl ran from the field house and the man fled.
The man was described as 30-40 years old, white with a light complexion, standing between 5-foot-6 and 6 feet tall, weighing between 150 and 190 pounds, and having short reddish hair with a thin strip of hair under his lower lip. He was wearing a black T-shirt and gray sweatpants, and may have a crooked or pushed-back front tooth, police said
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