SHILLINGTON, Pa. — On Caitlyn Olsavsky’s phone is the warning Governor Mifflin sent to families after she told the district what happened to her daughter Wednesday afternoon.
“I think within two hours of me reaching out to them,” Olsavsky said.
Olsavsky says her daughter was walking home from an after-school activity when she noticed a man following her in a white SUV.
“She started noticing that he was still following her,” Olsavsky said.
“She was kind of trying to zigzag down some streets to try to lose him and noticed that he was turning up the hill, turning around, trying to block her and cut her off,” she explained.
Olsavsky says her daughter called her father as she reached the alley behind their home. She says the driver motioned for the girl to come closer and offered her money.
“I want this man to know that there are eyes looking for him everywhere and that he made my daughter feel unsafe,” Olsavsky said.
“Now I want him to feel unsafe that we are looking for him,” she added.
Police are asking people along Reading Avenue, State Street, Pennsylvania Avenue and North Wyomissing Avenue to check footage recorded Wednesday, October 14, between 5:40 and 6:05 p.m.
“My husband has been going door to door asking for footage from Ring cameras,” Olsavsky said.
“We put it on Facebook. I think I’ve gotten almost 500 shares on that. I’ve had women reach out to me and say, ‘I will walk your daughter to school.’ So the community has been amazing,” she explained.