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Inappropriate Offer
Reported by: Melissa Medalie
Email: melissamedalie@clearchannel.com
Last Update: 9/13 6:57 pm
A woman is accused of trying to recruit very young girls into exotic dancing.
Police say the inappropriate offer was made in a ladies restroom at the York Fair Wednesday night. The deal didn't go down thanks to a quick thinking attendant.
Dorothea Bennett says while working in the ladies room at the Toyota Arena at the York Fair she hears a lot of interesting chatter. But Wednesday night around 6:00 when she saw a woman approach an 8 and an 11-year-old girl and start to talk about exotic dancing she knew she definitely had to interrupt that conversation.
Bennett asked the girls if they knew the woman and they said no. She then told the girls to go to their mothers. She told the woman to get out of the bathroom and that she was going to call the police. T
The attendant says the business card that the woman was handing out to the girls was for Miss Lindsay's, an adult store and lounge. Managers there tell CBS 21 News that they don't know anything about what happened at the fair.
The restroom attendant says while standing over the sink the woman told the little girls that exotic dancing was exciting. She says the woman talked to the girls about meeting men, fancy costumes and dancing on stage.
Dorothea Bennett quickly got the girls out of the bathroom after that conversation and then she called for help.
This is a tough situation for parents and police. They have identified the woman who reportedly approached the girls and have interviewed her. But they cannot charge her yet, because they do not know who the victims are. They have not identified the two girls.
Police are asking parents who have talked to their children and know about this to come forward. Once the victims are identified they can press charges.
The woman would face charges of corrupting the morals of minors.
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Disturbing Activity Witnessed At
9/14/07
Source: http://www.wdac.com/news.php
Police: Woman tried to recruit girls at York Fair as exotic dancers
ELIZABETH EVANS The
Article Launched:09/13/2007 10:47:51 AM EDT
A woman who approached young girls in a York Fair bathroom Tuesday and tried to recruit them into exotic dancing has been questioned by West Manchester Township Police.
Now, officers are trying to find the girls approached by the woman, who was wearing a pink polka-dotted dress, police said.
Police said an attendant in the women's bathroom of the
The attendant approached the girls and asked if they knew the woman; the girls said they did not. The girls also told the attendant they were 10 and 11 years old, police said.
As the attendant was speaking with the girls, the woman trying to solicit them left the bathroom, police said.
The attendant told the girls to go to their parents immediately, then she contacted police.
Returned with wig: Later Tuesday evening, the attendant saw the same woman return to the
The attendant notified police, who questioned the woman. Her name has not been released, and police also have not released the name of the adult club the woman had business cards for.
Gene Schenck, vice president of the York Fair, said all fair bathrooms have attendants, whose sole job is to keep bathrooms clean.
"They're not really there for security," he said. "But it sounds like we had a bathroom attendant who was on the ball and did the right thing, and a police department that's doing the right thing. ... It sounds like they put a stop to something that sounds like it should have been stopped."
Fair is safe: Schenck said the York Fair is a safe place.
"The fair is one of the safest places you can go and absolutely family-oriented," he said. "We strive for that. It's not a coincidence, it's a goal."
The York Fair has "one of the biggest police forces in the county" and gets support from surrounding police departments, he said.
"There are bad people everywhere, and that's why we have police officers," Schenck said. "We do our best to keep (bad people) off our property."
Anyone who was approached by a woman about exotic dancing or possibly meeting "male clientele" -- or anyone who witnessed her soliciting children -- is asked to call township Detective Jeff Snell at 792-9514.
-- Reach Elizabeth Evans at levans@yorkdispatch.com or 505-5429.
Source: http://www.yorkdispatch.com/local/ci_6882344
Police seeking children solicited at fair
A York Fair worker told police she heard a woman offer to teach young girls 'tricks' of exotic dancing business.
By MIKE HOOVER and MIKE ARGENTO
Daily Record/Sunday News
9/14/2007 06:16:09 AM EDT
Sep 14, 2007 — Dorothea Bennett was inside a stall gathering supplies to clean the restroom at the York Fair on Wednesday when, she said, she heard an older woman tell two young girls she was an exotic dancer and could teach them the “tricks of the trade.”
She looked out and saw the woman, who she said was wearing a pink, polka-dot sundress and looked like a “lady of the evening,” hand the girls a business card.
Bennett said she saw the woman also leave a stack of cards for an adult club on the restroom counter.
The cards had a silhouette of a woman on the left side, West Manchester Township Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Snell said.
Bennett, a 52-year-old woman who works for a
“You go to your mothers,” she told the girls, “and you get out of my bathroom,” she told the woman.
Bennett then went to the fire station next door to the Toyota Arena and told firefighters what happened. The firefighters called police.
West Manchester Township Police are looking to interview the girls who talked to the woman about 6 p.m. Wednesday.
Later in the evening, Bennett said, she saw the same woman - this time in a long blond wig and a different dress - again trying to recruit young girls. Police questioned the woman about 30 minutes later.
Bennett identified the woman, whom police then questioned.
The woman told police she did nothing inappropriate, maintaining she thought the girls were 18, said Bennett, who was standing with police when they questioned the woman.
“There is no way she thought those babies were 18 years old,” Bennett said. “It was very disturbing. I have no tolerance for that stuff. There's something sick about all that.”
York Fair Vice President Gene Schenck credited Bennett for intervening on behalf of the girls.
As an attendant, he said, her job was to clean the restrooms.
“She went beyond her normal duties,” Schenck said. “She did the right thing. She reported this to the police. That was the proper thing to do.”
Snell said the incident should serve as a reminder to parents not to let their children run free at the fair.
The fair attracts between 50,000 and 100,000 people at any given time, he said, many of whom are not from the county or the state.
Snell said police need to talk to the girls to establish what was said and build a case.
He said the woman has been questioned and identified, and police need a victim to pursue what he called an “active and ongoing” investigation.
CONTACT POLICE
West Manchester Township Police are trying to find any children who were solicited by a woman at the York Fair on Wednesday about exotic dancing or meeting with male clients.
Anyone with information is asked to contact West Manchester Township Police Detective Sgt. Jeff Snell at 792-9514.
Source: http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_6892421
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