Ebike rider, 13, charged with sexual touching after girls and women allegedly harassed on northern beaches trails
Sydney teenager charged with offensive behaviour and sexual touching without consent in relation to incidents involving females aged 13 to 54 An ebike riding 13-year-old boy has been charged with multiple sexual offences allegedly committed against women on walking trails on Sydney’s northern beaches. New South Wales police said the boy was arrested on Saturday evening after a strike force was…
A 13-year-old boy riding an ebike has been charged with multiple sexual offences after allegedly harassing women and girls on northern beaches trails in Sydney. The teenager was arrested on Saturday evening following a public appeal for information about inappropriate comments and sexual touching incidents that occurred over the first weeks of October.
Police allege that this is the result of 11 separate incidents involving women aged between 13 and 54. The investigation was initially sparked by three separate alleged incidents on October 7 and 8. In each incident, the suspect is said to have approached women on walking trails, sexually touched them, and then rode away on the ebike.
One particularly disturbing incident occurred on October 1, when the offender allegedly sexually touched a woman at Narrabeen lagoon before riding away. Last Monday, police received another report of two women being sexually touched by a male on an ebike near Bilarong reserve on the Narrabeen lagoon. A strike force was established to investigate the incidents, with assistance from the state crime command's sex crimes quad. The boy has been granted conditional bail and is set to appear at children's court on November 4.
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