Report: Man Tried To Lure Girls Into Woods

The Bartow County Sheriff’s Office is picking up patrols in an unincorporated Adairsville neighborhood following a report of man who allegedly tried to lure two girls into the woods.

A deputy with the agency was dispatched to a home on Stoner’s Road around 11:35 p.m. Jan. 18. The mother told the officer her daughter and a friend “were playing in the yard when they observed a man standing in the woods (near) their residence,” the deputy wrote in the report.

The woman said one of the girls walked to the edge of the yard to retrieve a softball “when she heard footsteps in the leaves and observed a white male approximately six feet tall and weighing 250 pounds leaning up against a tree,” the report reads.

According to the report, the man allegedly began to make hand gestures to one of the girls “to come closer to him.”

“As the girls began to back away, the male also began to back peddle,” the deputy wrote in the report, adding the man was described as wearing all black clothing, with a black mask and the only thing visible were his eyes and mouth.

The report states both children turned to run away and the man also turned to run into the woods. The deputy informed the woman that extra patrols would be issued for the area.

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