- April 24, 2024
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A Palm Coast father called the Flagler County Sheriff's Office Monday, March 6, after a strange man tried to lure his daughter into the woods, according to a Sheriff's Office report.
The father told a deputy that his 9-year-old daughter and 11-year-old son were outside playing in front of their house in the P-Section when they were approached by a man who offered the daughter a $20 bill and "and asked if she knew of any good hiding places in the vacant wooded lot across the street," according to a Sheriff's Office case report.
The children came home crying. Neighbors saw what was happening and came out to their front yards. The father asked the children if the man had touched them, and the children said he had not.
The father called 911, and told a dispatcher what happened. A neighbor described the man as white, about 5 feet, 5 inches tall and 145 pounds, wearing long pants and a light-colored collared shirt unbuttoned over a T-shirt.
The man has a black tattoo on the right side of his face and may have been carrying a black backpack. He was last seen passing through a wooded lot at Pepper Lane.
Sheriff's Office deputies canvassed the area but did not find the man.
