An investigation has been launched after an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted near a playground.<\/p>\n
Avon and Somerset Police said the incident happened in a wooded area close to the Clarks Way playground in Odd Down, Bath, on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
Officers said the suspect was described as a white man with a “distinctive” neck tattoo, aged approximately in his 30s or 40s. He was said to be wearing a T-shirt, shorts and a cap at the time.<\/p>\n
Det Insp Hannah Marsh said: “This is an incredibly serious incident and a significant amount of resources are in place to support our investigation and we are prioritising efforts to identify the offender.”<\/p>\n
Avon and Somerset Police said extra patrols and house-to-house enquiries were being carried out in the area while CCTV footage would continue to be reviewed.<\/p>\n
Anybody with information about the incident is asked to contact the force.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An investigation has been launched after an 11-year-old girl was sexually assaulted near a playground. Avon and Somerset…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":658035,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-658034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658034","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=658034"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/658034\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/658035"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=658034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=658034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=658034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}