David L.
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]On Behalf Of Charles
Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:47 PM
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Subject: [Sndbox] Goretti girls take 'flasher'
Call it "Girls Gone Wild," South Philly-style.
A man who had been flashing his private parts to girls at St. Maria Goretti High School got more than he bargained for yesterday when he got his comeuppance and landed in the hospital, police said.
Three former victims recognized the suspect - who had been preying on the girls since Sept. 14 - and chased him down. About 20 Goretti students soon followed and they managed to wrestle him to the ground until Philly cops arrived, police spokesman William Colarulo said last night.
The suspect, whose name isn't being released by police because he hasn't been charged yet, was treated at St. Agnes Medical Center for minor injuries to his mouth, and was released.
He will face a variety of charges once he is arrested on a warrant charging numerous counts of corrupting the morals of a minor, stalking, harassment and indecent exposure, Colarulo said.
Police said he flashed 13 victims in seven different incidents.
"The Goretti girls were very courageous and they obviously weren't afraid to mix it up with this guy," said Colarulo.
"I'm happy he's off the street," said Caitlin Dalin, 14, a Goretti ninth-grader. The flasher exposed himself to Dalin twice, she said. About two times too many.
The flasher got too comfy for his britches because he was seen exposing himself to two young girls yesterday afternoon when Goretti 10th-grader Dorothy Kopicko recognized him near the bus stop used by students at 10th Street and Snyder Avenue.
Members of the public got in on the action and helped to catch the flasher, said Kopicko, 15, and two fellow flashing victims, who all ran after him.
When he ran out of breath from all the running, sitting down at the nearest stoop to catch his breath, "he was like 'what did I do? I did not do anything,' " Kopicko recalled.
Her friend Stephanie Kapovic, 15, yelled back " 'Hey you did. You know what you did!' " Kopicko said. "Everyone was telling him 'you know what you did.' "
Dalin said she kicked the suspect with her Eastland black school shoes.
After yesterday's incident, the three went up to the Special Victims Unit and filed a report.
The suspect wore blue khakis, white sneakers with no socks and a tan T-shirt with a blue stripe across the chest, Kapovic recalled.
"He just starts walking real slow with it just out," the ninth- grader said.
"He walked real slow like it was OK."
Kopicko kicked him after he flashed and "he turned around, like, what was that for? Like it was OK for him to be exposing himself that way," she said.
Their mothers were beaming last night about their daughters.
"We're proud of them that they took action and because of that, he's off the street," said Kathy Dalin.
Still, Kopicko, who wants to be a police officer when she grows up, wondered about what the suspect's sentence will be.
"I feel safer now, but how long is he going to be in jail?" she asked.
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