Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SUNDAY, November 6, 1994 TAG: 9411070062
SECTION: VIRGINIA PAGE: C10 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS
DATELINE: FAIRFAX LENGTH: Short
A Fairfax boy was taken from his bedroom Thursday around 2:30 a.m. while his parents slept. He was found five hours later, clad only in his underwear, by a jogger in Rockville, Md. Police would not say if the child had been sexually assaulted.
Police in Montgomery and Frederick counties in Maryland are looking at cases in Damascus and Urbana in which children were taken from their homes during the night through unlocked doors or windows and sexually assaulted.
``We're not in a position to specifically state there is a relationship, but there are some similarities,'' Fairfax County police spokesman Warren Carmichael said.
In the Damascus case, a 3-year-old girl was taken from her crib at night in October 1991 and sexually assaulted outside her home, according to Sgt. Frank Young of the Montgomery County police.
The girl was found hours later crying at the back door to her family's home, Young said. Authorities think the abductor entered the house through an unlocked back door and walked freely through the house as the family slept.
In September 1993, a 6-year-old Urbana, Md., boy was taken from his home during the night by a man who crawled through an unlocked window. The child was later found 56 miles away near the USAir Arena in Landover, Md.
Authorities said the abductor in both the Fairfax case and the Urbana abduction told his victims their houses were on fire.
by CNB