Sexual assaults lead to warning

WARREN -- A school administrator is warning parents to remind their children about safety precautions, after a reported sexual assault on a girl walking to school.
"The East staff has reviewed with all of the students proper procedues to follow when confronted by a stranger. Please talk with your child about safe procedures to follow when walking to and from school," Martin Kelly, assistant principal at East Middle School, wrote to parents of pupils attending that school.
In the Tuesday incident Kelly refers to, a man came up behind a 13-year-old girl, grabbed and fondled her and ran away. She was walking on Kenilworth Avenue Southeast, en route to East at 7:50 a.m., police said.
"The proper authorities were notified, and the incident is being investigated," Kelly wrote to the parents.
Police also were investigating a similar incident on Wednesday that involved a girl en route to school, but no further details were available. Police are investigating similarities between these cases and a comparable incident in Niles.
On Sept. 8 in Warren, a Linden Street Southeast woman reported her 15-year-old daughter was raped by an unknown man at 1:30 p.m. on the railroad tracks between Woodland and East Market streets.