The story is sad, but compare the two stories below, about the same incident:
Girl Sexually Assaulted at Fla. Theme Park
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a Universal Studios hotel by a man who followed her into an elevator, authorities said Tuesday.
No immediate arrests were made.
Sheriff's Sgt. Rich Mankewich said man followed the girl, who was alone and looking for her mother, from the parking lot into the Enclave Suites on Monday night. A room key is required to enter the hotel, but Mankewich said the man slipped in behind her.
Once on the elevator, the attacker groped the girl over her shorts, investigators said.
The girl told investigators she bit the man after he put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. She pushed the emergency button and ran out when the elevator stopped, Mankewich said.
The girl was from Ukraine and had recently arrived in the United States with her family. Investigators said she had taken a self-defense course just two weeks ago, which police credited with helping her end the attack.
Investigators distributed security camera photographs of the man leaving the elevator. There was no camera in the elevator itself.
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Foreign tourist, 12, escapes attacker
By Henry Pierson Curtis | [Orlando] Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted July 19, 2005, 1:46 PM EDT
A 12-year-old foreign tourist fought off an attacker who tried to rape her late Monday in the elevator of an International Drive area hotel.
The child screamed, bit the man's hand and broke away when the door opened on an upper floor at Enclave resort, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
"She did all the right things," said Sgt. Richard Mankewich of the ______ Crimes unit. "She probably saved herself from being sexually assaulted."
Security cameras filmed the attacker as he followed the 12-year-old from the rear parking lot into the hotel lobby when she let herself into the building with a magnetic swipe room card. The child took a self-defense course about two weeks ago and seemed to have a sixth sense about the predator's presence, Mankewich said.
The child had accompanied her mother to the parking lot about 11:30 p.m. when her mother left to buy a pizza for the family, records show.
The attacker is described as a 5-feet 7-inch tall, 150-pound white male, about 19 years, with short black hair and a mustache. He spoke with a high-pitch and an accent that the child, a foreigner, could not recognize.
Dressed in a white t-shirt, white pants and white shoes, the man might be a kitchen worker at some local business, Mankewich said.
The Enclave on Carrier Drive, a block off International Drive, was the site of the arrest earlier this year of a Brazilian man who was charged with assaulting women at hotels in the tourist corridor. The man jumped bail and remains at large but is not a suspect in Monday's attack as the attacker was much younger.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimeline at 407-423-8477.
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If I was Universal Studios, I would be very upset right about now.
Girl Sexually Assaulted at Fla. Theme Park
Associated Press
ORLANDO, Fla. - A 12-year-old girl was sexually assaulted at a Universal Studios hotel by a man who followed her into an elevator, authorities said Tuesday.
No immediate arrests were made.
Sheriff's Sgt. Rich Mankewich said man followed the girl, who was alone and looking for her mother, from the parking lot into the Enclave Suites on Monday night. A room key is required to enter the hotel, but Mankewich said the man slipped in behind her.
Once on the elevator, the attacker groped the girl over her shorts, investigators said.
The girl told investigators she bit the man after he put his hand over her mouth to stop her from screaming. She pushed the emergency button and ran out when the elevator stopped, Mankewich said.
The girl was from Ukraine and had recently arrived in the United States with her family. Investigators said she had taken a self-defense course just two weeks ago, which police credited with helping her end the attack.
Investigators distributed security camera photographs of the man leaving the elevator. There was no camera in the elevator itself.
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Foreign tourist, 12, escapes attacker
By Henry Pierson Curtis | [Orlando] Sentinel Staff Writer
Posted July 19, 2005, 1:46 PM EDT
A 12-year-old foreign tourist fought off an attacker who tried to rape her late Monday in the elevator of an International Drive area hotel.
The child screamed, bit the man's hand and broke away when the door opened on an upper floor at Enclave resort, according to the Orange County Sheriff's Office.
"She did all the right things," said Sgt. Richard Mankewich of the ______ Crimes unit. "She probably saved herself from being sexually assaulted."
Security cameras filmed the attacker as he followed the 12-year-old from the rear parking lot into the hotel lobby when she let herself into the building with a magnetic swipe room card. The child took a self-defense course about two weeks ago and seemed to have a sixth sense about the predator's presence, Mankewich said.
The child had accompanied her mother to the parking lot about 11:30 p.m. when her mother left to buy a pizza for the family, records show.
The attacker is described as a 5-feet 7-inch tall, 150-pound white male, about 19 years, with short black hair and a mustache. He spoke with a high-pitch and an accent that the child, a foreigner, could not recognize.
Dressed in a white t-shirt, white pants and white shoes, the man might be a kitchen worker at some local business, Mankewich said.
The Enclave on Carrier Drive, a block off International Drive, was the site of the arrest earlier this year of a Brazilian man who was charged with assaulting women at hotels in the tourist corridor. The man jumped bail and remains at large but is not a suspect in Monday's attack as the attacker was much younger.
Anyone with information is asked to call Crimeline at 407-423-8477.
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If I was Universal Studios, I would be very upset right about now.
