14-Year-Old Boy Sexually Abused in Gold Coast: Police

Police issued a community alert to residents of Chicago’s Gold Coast neighborhood Tuesday after a man allegedly sexually abused a 14-year-old boy.

Officials say a man approached the teenager around 5:35 p.m. Monday on the 100 block of W. Chesnut. After striking a conversation with the boy, the man lured him into a parking garage stairwell and exposed himself to him, according to police.

The man is approximately 150 pounds and in his early twenties, police say, and is described as being 5 feet, 4 inches tall with a goatee and a horizontal scar across his nose.

Police have asked anyone with further information to contact the Area Central Bureau of Detectives at (312) 747-8380.

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