Detectives are appealing to the community for information following reports a teenager was assaulted and sexually touched by a group of males near Maitland last month.
\nOfficers from Port Stephens-Hunter Police District were contacted after a 13-year-old girl disclosed she had been assaulted while she was walking on Thomas Coke Drive, Thornton, about 4.45pm on Thursday 4 July 2019.
\nEarlier this month, the matter was referred to detectives from the State Crime Command\u2019s Child Abuse and Sex Crimes Squad for further investigation.
\nAfter speaking with the girl further, detectives were told she was followed by about six males and pushed to the ground near the intersection of Thomas Coke Drive and John Arthur Avenue.
\nThe girl further disclosed one of the males sexually touched her, before she was able to run away.
\nInvestigators are now appealing to the community for assistance to identify the six males, who may be able to assist with the investigation.
\nThey are all described as being in their late teens, wearing baggy jeans and riding BMX push bikes.
\nDetectives are also urging anyone who was in the area at the time who may have seen the incident, specifically a man who was walking his dog near the Alan & Don Lawrence Oval, to come forward.
\nThe man is described as having an olive complexion, aged between 40 and 50, with dark hair and a long well-kept beard. He was walking a brown Border Collie cross German Sheppard.
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