Winnipeg police are looking for a suspect after a preteen girl was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in the city’s North End area early Saturday morning.<\/p>\n
Officials with the service’s child abuse unit received a report that a preteen girl was the victim of a serious sexual assault near Manitoba Avenue and Salter Street on Saturday morning, police said in a news release.<\/p>\n
The girl was walking on Manitoba Avenue, between Salter and Andrews streets, around 3 a.m. when she was approached by a man in a vehicle. He lured her into the car by promising to provide drugs and alcohol, police said.<\/p>\n
The man then drove the girl to a nearby alley, where he threatened her at knifepoint and sexually assaulted her, police said.<\/p>\n
The girl fled to a nearby family member’s house and police were called.<\/p>\n
Child abuse unit investigators are looking for a suspect. Police described the man as between 30 and 40 years-old, with short dark hair and a moustache. He was driving a four-door brown coloured sedan at the time of the incident, police said.<\/p>\n