A trio of Catholic girls turned the tables on a serial "flasher," exposing the man who had a habit of exposing himself.
How they went about it is the remarkable part of the story. They just plain got fed up with his lasciviousness, reports the Philadelphia Daily News.
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![]() Stephanie Kapovic, 15, Caitlin Dalin, 14, and Dorothy Kopicko, 15, held man for cops. (Photo: Elwood P. Smith/Philadelphia Daily News) |
The paper reports the three St. Maria Goretti High School students recognized the man, who had been preying on them since Sept. 14 and gave chase.
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They caught him in the act of displaying his private parts to two young girls near a bus stop.
"He just starts walking real slow with it just out," Caitlin Dalin, 14, a Goretti ninth-grader told the Daily News. "He walked real slow like it was OK." Dalin said the man, whose name was not released by police because he has yet to be charged, has exposed himself to her twice in recent weeks.
That's when another victim, 10th-grader Dorothy Kopicko, kicked the man.
"He turned around, like, what was that for? Like it was OK for him to be exposing himself that way," she said.
At that point, the flasher bolted with the girls close on his heels, according to the local daily, and more than a dozen other Goretti students joined in pursuit.
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When he sat down to catch his breath at a stoop, the mob jumped him and wrestled him to the ground before police officers arrived and took him into custody. He had to be treated at St. Agnes Medical Center for minor injuries to his mouth.
"The Goretti girls were very courageous and they obviously weren't afraid to mix it up with this guy," police spokesman William Colarulo told the paper.
According to Colarulo, the man has flashed 13 girls in different situations.
"I'm happy he's off the street," the paper quotes Dalin as saying.
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"I feel safer now," Kopicko chimed in.