An 11-year-old boy was sexually assaulted in a cinema toilet in Melbourne’s north-east while his mother waited outside.
The brazen attack occurred around 4:30pm on Sunday at Main Street, Greensborough, when the boy and his mother left mid-film so he could go to the bathroom.
After the boy entered the toilet, a strange man approached him at the urinal and assaulted him, while his mother waited outside, Fairfax Media reports.
The attacker – believed to be aged between 40 and 60 and wearing a hooded jumper – fled with his pants around his ankles.
The boy ran out to his mother and raised the alarm.
Diamond Creek Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives wish to speak to any witnesses.
Anyone with any information can contact Crime Stoppers on 1800 333 000 or submit a confidential crime report at www.crimestoppersvic.com.au
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A child is at a far far greater risk at home or while being driven to the venue than anything he might experience in a public toilet.
yes, but when it comes to my kids, better safe than sorry
Which would mean that you don't drive them anywhere.
My son is now an early teen and he will not go into the ladies with me. So, if the disabled is free, I send him in there. It's much safer. and I know that no creepy men will be lurking around because he is in there by himself. I think that it would be easier if all toilets were unisex and not in some sort of big room together, but single room cubicles, like the disabled ones always are.
I send my son to the disabled toilets too when possible.
Early teen? Are you serious? Paranoid much?
He looks young for his age and he is only a couple of years older than the kid who was abused in the story above. So how about you let me worry about my kids in the way I see fit?