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An email is flying around about a man who is apparently hanging out at the Whole Foods and Best Market, waiting for parents to become distracted so he can surreptitiously touch their children. I was forwarded a photo from a reader whose friend’s child was “stroked” on the back, but it doesn’t feel right to me to post it. (If your child attends a local school, you’ve probably been sent it by now.) I suspect if you saw the guy, this post and his rubber gloves might set off your radar. Of course, if you see him do anything, by all means report it—that’s the only way the police can do anything about it.
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the 1st Precinct is non existent in our area. Never a cop around when you need one. Cabs pass lights, people get their phones stolen right from their hands. Lots of homeless hanging out on Greenwich Street. Good Luck finding a cop to help find this creep praying on the young.
I don’t have a child that attends a local school but I frequent wholes food a lot with my son. How can we access this photo? I
I don’t know the person who sent the photo to me, and I don’t know the person who took the photo. It sounded legit enough to me to warrant posting, so that parents could be on guard, but for all I know it could be a prank, or someone’s revenge on an ex. The guy may be a creep, or this could all be a weird misunderstanding. Publishing his photo convicts him prematurely, and your noble urge to protect your children doesn’t necessarily trump other people’s rights.
Kudos to you Eric for doing the right thing.
Perhaps you should think of your concern that it might be a “weird misunderstanding” or just a “creep” in the context of your headline. You are losing me here.
Ditto. I am not sure why you don’t think it “feel’s right” to share a photo of a child predator in our neighborhood that many people already have access to. I have two children who go to private school in Brooklyn. I would like information on what to look out for.
Elizabeth, you’re why not publishing a random photo is the prudent way to approach this. You went from “creep” to “child predator” in 0 – 60. Let’s have something more substantiated before we go lighting torches and grabbing pitchforks.
Posting this as a heads-up is enough. I for one will be keeping an eye out.
It is not right to share such a photo unless the police have conformed that the person in the photo is, or is connected to, the sick son of a bitch.
If a parent or caretaker sees that photo they will only look out for that particular individual… So if the photo turns out to be of someone unrelated to these crimes, they will inadvertently be putting their child in danger if they scan a room, don’t see the man they saw in the photo, and let their guard down.
In the meantime, be aware of anyone wearing rubber gloves in a crowded area (especially a store/market) and obtain more information on what to look out for from the pd and local schools.
With Churchillian eloquence, Erik always falls on the right side of history.
Would that it were so,* but I appreciate the sentiment. *https://youtu.be/kGpsXuMvApo
I’ve seen the photo and for those that haven’t but are curious to see what this guy looks like. Trust me. Even without seeing a picture, you’d never let a guy looking like that within a few feet of your kid if you saw him. Besides looking completely unwashed and unshaven, the guys wearing surgical gloves.
And yet no one has the courage to expose the daily groping and squeezing of the fruits and vegetables by the Lulemon and embarrassingly embarrassing Canadian Goose-wearing moms and dads? “Courage” – Dan Rather not