Jul 11, 2008 12:14 am US/Eastern
Police Investigate Possible Sex Attacks In Queens
Neighborhood Residents On Edge Following Recent Spate Of Attacks
NEW YORK (CBS) ―
Classes may be out for the summer, but a young woman was taken to school and then a playground just before 5 a.m. on Thursday where she was sexually assaulted at knifepoint, and then robbed.
Police scoured the school for clues in what is the latest in a string of Queens sex assaults that have occured in close proximity to each other, with the first occurring at 2 a.m. on Tuesday in Jamaica.
"It's very scary, very scary," said neighbor Pamela Timmermen.
The next sex attack happened at 8:15 Wednesday morning in Springfield Gardens. Police say a 16-year-old girl walking to summer school was pulled to the back of an abandoned church by a man with a boxcutter and forced to perform a sex act.
Then, police say, another sexual assault occurred at 1 a.m. Thursday morning. The string of recent incidents ends with the latest occurring at 4:50 a.m. back in Springfield Gardens.
"I'm concerned. I'm concerned about it because I'm a woman by myself and anything could happen," said neighbor Jean Ramsen.
That it's happened four times has police passing out flyers of a man who's wanted in at least one of the attacks.
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