ST. CHARLES, Ill. (CBS) — Police are searching for the man who tried to use cold weather as an excuse to lure a young girl into his warm car as she waited for a school bus.
It happened Tuesday at Turnberry Road and Royal Queens Court in west suburban St. Charles.
Police don’t have a lot to go as they search for the man who apparently tried to abduct that girl in broad daylight.
Several schoolchildren were on the corner waiting for their bus in the upscale Royal Fox neighborhood when just before 8 a.m., a man in a tan or silver four door sedan pulled up.
“..and spoke to a 13-year-old girl and told her to get in his car,” said St. Charles Interim Police Chief Steve Huffman, “She did the right thing. She said no. He again told her to get in the car, I’ll take to school because it’s cold out”
The other kids said the school bus is coming and the man drove off. The suspect is described as Caucasian, 40 to 50 years old with short grey hair and a scruffy beard. The word is out in the neighborhood and parents are worried,
“They’re all on the bus stops together and the parents are usually there too so now you know you really wouldn’t want to leave your kid on a bus stop alone, that would scare me,” said parent Joyce Paliganoff.
As police search for the suspect the traditional stranger danger warnings are more valid than ever.
Investigators are now looking at registered sex offenders in the area for similar MO’s, but no arrest has been made so far.
Anyone with information should contact St. Charles Police at (630) 762-6967
