Parents, Be Aware of Creep at Leif Ericson Park
UPDATE: The parents of the boy, who was picked up and kissed returned to the park today.
They saw the creep and called the police on the creep. The police took an hour to respond. NYC Parks employees helped keep the man in the park. The man was questioned and arrested. Go Bay Ridge Parents for taking action for their son and other children in the community!
A mother in Bay Ridge shared what happened to her child at the Leif Ericonson Park, so that everyone is aware and can be alert.
Between 4:00 and 6:00 pm, a child and his father were at Leif Ericsson Park on 66th Street. They were near the sprinklers where the children usually play volleyball.
A stranger approached the child. The stranger picked up the child and gave him a kiss on the cheek.
The father didn’t recognize the man, so he went to his son and asked his son if he knew him. The child did not know the man. The father went over to the stranger and spoke to him about picking up his child and kissing him. The man walked away.
Moments later, the same man walked over to children. He tried to touch the shirt of a small boy. The shirt had a bear on it.
The father of the first boy went over to the stranger and asked him if this was his child. It was not his child.
The man approaching children was in his 50’s, Asian and around 5’7″ inches tall. The man smelled like he was drinking alcohol. This does not mean “Bay Ridge has changed.” There have always been creeps lurking in NYC neighborhoods.
Decades ago, I was a seven-year-old child that a stranger tried to take. I lived on a block in Sunset Park, where families looked out for each other. When a man put out his hand to touch me, my neighbor yelled “Keep walking Buster” and the man continued down the block. It took my family many years to let me out of their sight. When I went to high school, my brother, Phil drove my friends and I to school every day. When I went to college, Phil changed jobs and drove me to college. I didn’t realize this until years later when he had his own daughter and told me.
Hugs,
marlene
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