Peel Regional Police’s Special Victims Unit is asking for the public’s help in finding a suspect who sexually assaulted two elderly women in Mississauga on Tuesday morning.
Police say a 96-year-old woman was walking in the area of ​​Mississauga Valley Boulevard and the Cooksville Creek Trail around 7 a.m. when she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a male suspect.
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Less than an hour later, another woman, a 66-year-old, walked along that path and the same man is suspected of sexually assaulting her as well.
Police say the suspect escaped the scene and neither woman was physically injured.
The suspect is described as a man in his early 20s, approximately 5 to 8 years old, with a thin build, clean shaven, wearing a plain zip-up hoodie and straight black jeans.
Authorities are asking people to call the Special Victims Unit or Peel Crime Stoppers if they have any information about the incidents.
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