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Parents fear for daughters as sex attacker roams

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PARENTS spoke of living in fear for their daughters' safety yesterday after a police warning that a serial sex attacker was on the loose in Western.

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Some told how they had stopped their daughters wearing skirts and shorts after a string of attacks on girls in school uniform.

Worries increased yesterday after an attack on a 13-year-old girl in Boundary Street, Shamshuipo, on Friday evening as she was returning from school.

Police said there was nothing to connect the incident with the rape and four sexual assaults carried out by what they believe to be the same man in Western.

Yesterday morning parents accompanying their daughters to school in Western voiced their fears.

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One housewife said she was worried about her 10-year-old daughter.

'I will go wherever my daughter goes . . . There are many old buildings in this district, so the security is bad.

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