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Original post (02/13/2019): Transit Police are seeking a man who they allege made crude remarks toward a young girl on-board a SkyTrain car before groping her.

Around 7 p.m. on Feb. 2, a woman and her seven-year-old daughter boarded an eastbound SkyTrain at Commercial-Broadway Station in Vancouver and sat across the aisle from the man.

“During the commute, the (subject) directed his attention toward the young girl, trying to attract her attention,” read a Transit Police news release.

According to cops, the man then made “extremely vulgar and sexual” comments toward the girl, even “detailing sexual acts he wanted to engage in” with the child.

The man then tried to touch the girl several times and allegedly touched the girl’s bottom, prompting her mother to pull her into her lap away from the man.

After the man disembarked at Production Way SkyTrain Station in Burnaby, he was confronted by a bystander who overheard the inappropriate remarks. Transit Police also received a text report from another passenger about the incident. Officers met the train at Lougheed SkyTrain Station where they interviewed the mother and her daughter.

The subject is described as white, between 50 and 60 years old, standing about 6-feet, with grey curly/wavy hair. He was wearing a grey sweater with white stripes on the sleeves, a black baseball cap, grey pants and black shoes. He was carrying a black Nike duffel bag.

Anyone with information about the man, or who witnessed the incident, is asked to contact Transit Police at 604-516-7419 or text 87-77-77 and cite File No. 2019-1962.

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