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Saanich police investigate flasher incidents

Saanich police have received reports of two more incidents since a teenage girl witnessed an indecent act at a bus stop on Dec. 3.
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Saanich police have received reports of two more incidents since a teenage girl witnessed an indecent act at a bus stop on Dec. 3.

While there are similarities in descriptions and actions among the cases, they have not conclusively been connected, Saanich police Sgt. Steve Eassie said.

The initial case involved a teenage girl in a Boleskine Road bus shelter; a man approached her about 8 a.m. and asked questions of a sexual nature. He then pulled his pants down and masturbated.

The girl left to get help and the man went toward Whittier Avenue.

On Dec. 4 about 8:35 a.m., a man approached a teenage girl at a bus stop on Shelbourne Street, near McCrae Avenue and began speaking in a sexual manner. The girl left when her bus arrived a few minutes later.

On Cedar Hill Road, near Cedar Hill Cross Road, about 8:30 p.m. on Monday a girl in her teens was walking alone and felt that she was being watched and followed by a man. The man went ahead of her, then pulled down his pants and masturbated.

The suspect in the first case is described as 35 to 40, while the others are estimated to be about 40. All are described as being between five-foot-seven and five-foot-nine.

Eassie said suspects in the first two incidents were described as clean-shaven, and the suspect in the third was said to have a beard or other facial hair.