Dibs

If you can’t be safe in a bookstore, then where CAN you be safe? Well, you can’t be safe in bookstores anymore, judging from an ongoing crime wave in the Boston area. Today police are “looking for a man who allegedly assaulted a young girl in the children’s section of a popular bookstore,” according to The Boston Channel. “The victim was 9 years old and was attacked Sept. 1 … this is the third such attack in the last year. Authorities said the most recent victim was at the New England Mobile Book Fair with her mother and wandered off into the children’s section alone when she was cornered and indecently assaulted.” She described her assailant “as a white man in his 20s, with strawberry blond hair and sunglasses. The man’s description fits the one that was given by two other young girls who were assaulted at the bookstore over the last year. A 9-year-old girl was assaulted there in September 2005 and an 8-year-old was attacked in June of 2005. No arrests were made in any of the cases.” Now there’s another good reason to shop at Amazon.com.