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A man has been captured on camera running away from a pack of pet dogs after he allegedly attempted to sexually assault two women in a park.\u00a0Supplied<\/p>\n
One of them managed to tear off a piece of the man\u2019s clothing.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was thinking of all the different scenarios that could happen, but I was more trying to jump into action, rather than focus on how scared I was,\u201d the woman said.<\/p>\n
Police have released a composite image of a man they wish to speak to about the incident.<\/p>\n
The man is perceived to be of African appearance, wearing black tracksuit pants, white socks, slides, black and grey hooded top and was wearing a black face covering.<\/p>\n
He was also carrying a large bright blue backpack.<\/p>\n
The attack has shocked locals and left a sense of disquiet in the community.<\/p>\n
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Detectives have released a facial composite of a man they wish to speak to in relation to the incident.\u00a0Victoria Police<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s just really unnerving to know that it happened in broad daylight and it happened at all, full stop, really,\u201d one resident said.<\/p>\n
While the dog walkers feel wary of returning to the park, they are determined not to let the attack stop them from doing their jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m just going to have to be a little bit more cautious,\u201d one of the women said.<\/p>\n
\u201cI mean, I always have been anyway, as a female.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m not going to let it stop me from coming to the park that I enjoy so much, and the dogs enjoy.\u201d<\/p>\n
Anyone who witnessed the incident or has any information has been asked to come forward to police.<\/p>\n
Support is available from the National Sexual Assault, Domestic and Family Violence Counselling Service at 1800RESPECT (1800 737 732)<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A dog walker has described the terrifying moment a stranger tried to grab her and her friend at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":801758,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[43,44,41,39,42,40],"class_list":["post-801757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/801758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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