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Witnesses sought in early-April sex assault of teen in Hamilton park
Hamilton police are looking for witnesses of a sexual assault of a teenager that happened in early April on a trail near Battlefield Park in Stoney Creek.
Police say that on April 3 around 2 p.m. a man allegedly approached and sexually assaulted a 17-year-old who was walking in the area south of the park located at 77 King St. West.
The suspect is described as a bald, white man with brownish sun-spotted skin, around fifty years of age, approximately five-foot-10 tall and overweight. He was clean-shaven and said to have hairless arms and large lips.
He was reportedly wearing a brown baseball cap with white mesh backing, rectangular sunglasses, a grey shirt with a red and white logo over the chest that read “Stoney Creek Hamilton”, and grey and neon yellow tennis shoes.
The suspect’s vehicle is thought to be a newer-model grey two-door Dodge Ram pick-up truck.
Anyone with information or possible dashcam or video footage from the area in the afternoon of April 3 is asked to contact Detective Michal Buszkowski of the Sex Crimes Unit at 905-546-4527, or the Sex Crimes Unit non-emergency administrative line at 905-540-5553.
Those with information who wish to remain anonymous can contact Hamilton Crime Stoppers at 800-222-8477 or submit an anonymous tip online.
