 For those who don't know me, my name is Detective Inspector Bob Hitch from the Brisbane West District. We've got two purposes today for the media release. The first is in relation to seeking public assistance in relation to an attempted abduction which occurred earlier this morning, sometime just after eight o'clock at inaugural. The second is also purpose is to just make people aware and to be vigilant in relation to in and around the schools in relation to suspect persons. What's occurred is just after eight o'clock this morning, a female student from one of the local private schools was walking from the inaugural railway station. She was walking from Pickering Street near the Pickering Street Wardell Street overpass. She was walking up the entry ramp onto Wardell Street come South Pine Road when she was approached by a stranger who grabbed her, has dragged her into the nearby park and bushlands. Now during the attack, the student, the 13 year old girl from the school has bravely put up some resistance and has fought with her attacker and has managed to be able to get away, attend her local school and police were notified. The girl herself is currently still assisting police with inquiries. Her parents have been notified, the local school has been notified. We have also reports from other students, approximately 10 minutes before this incident took place, who report seeing a mail of a similar description in that area acting very suspiciously. We're treating this as very serious, we've had police on the ground today. We've conducted searches of the local area, we've done door knocks, we're still taking statements from possible witnesses. I'm hopeful that we may be able to have a conflict to be able to give it to you later on but it's early stages of our investigation at the moment. That's basically the appeal, I have a description, the description is vague description but there are some parts of the description that I'm quite certain will be able to jog someone's memory out there or be able to hit a cord with members of the public. The mail attacker is his mail, Caucasian, approximately 176 in height, thin build. The distinctive characteristics is that he's got short hair which is receding from the front, he has an earring or a stud in one of his ears and he has been described as having a squinty or a lazy eye and at the time of the attack he was wearing an oversized white coloured t-shirt come singlet top. We're relatively sort of striking descriptions and I'm quite certain that our attacker may be someone within the local area so we're appealing for people in the local area who may have seen this person today or may have seen that person in and around that parkland or in Mordell Street or Pickering Street over the last week or so. We ask that they come forward and contact us easily through the crime stopper's number 1-800-333-000. Could you confirm was she 13 or 14? She's a 13 year old. Was she injured in any way? Look, she's bravely put up a fight. She's not seriously injured but she's certainly been shaken and there was some physical elements to the assault. Was she sexually assaulted? Look, I won't go into that but no, the attack took place very quickly and she's been able to quickly make her escape. But obviously she and you think that was the intent of the event? Look, we can't rule out what the motive would have been and that certainly would be one of our lines of inquiry. So other people saw this person but were not approached or...? Look, a couple of the girls at this stage and we're still going through seeking witnesses and we appeal for anyone in the local area, especially the school community, to come forward but a couple of the girls from the same school were walking ahead of this student and has seen this man behaving in a strange behaviour. They've been able to walk around him without any sort of incident but he certainly gave them the creeps. What's your message for young girls walking to school by themselves? Well, the best message is to travel in pairs where possible and the girls in the earlier group were walking as a pair and they did act as a pair, they both were suspicious and they took actions. That part of the street at that time of the day is a very busy area for school traffic, especially from the inaugural rail station. So the easiest message is to travel in pairs and to report any suspicious behaviour straight away. We're unable to respond unless people report behaviour. If they think it's bad they should report it and let the police do their work from there. She screamed or yelled and fled up toward the school. She's put on a brave fight, she's physically fought with her attacker and has been able to make her escape and that's where she's gone to the school. Can you tell us what school it was? I'll look for privacy reasons for the school, I'm not but it's a local private school in that area. Was the attacker on foot or were you in a car? We have no motor vehicle associated with our attacker at this stage. We believe the attacker is on foot and it was predominantly hanging around that park area there. There's a bit of a creek, a bit of green area. Has there been any other similar incidents like that in the area in the last couple of months? No. We've had no similar incidents in the later stages of last year and none this year in that area. You can stand in my door again? Oh look, certainly and that's the purpose of our appeal to seek assistance so we can identify and catch this person and just to make people aware that there are these sorts of people out there. Is she wearing earphones? Look, I can't comment but not to my knowledge. Given the nature of the area, it's a pretty brazen attack would you say? It is because of the time of the day. Today's a very wet day as you know and of course that reduces the amount of foot traffic and there's a lot of school buses leave from the inaugural rail station but look, it's still you know considered to be a, it would be a brazen attack in my view. Why do you think he's from the local area? Oh just the nature of the attack and the manner in which the attacks take place. It look, we can't rule out that it's someone who lives locally, someone who can travel by foot. Was he, was she approached from behind after she passed him? I won't go into the dynamics except to say that the strange is prodded or on the street itself. You've been door knocking, what will you do now, how will your investigation receive? Well we've conducted sweeps of the area on foot and using the police dogs, of course the inclement weather doesn't help us too much. We've conducted some door knocks, we'll no doubt expand our door knocks over the next day or so. Certainly it's around the businesses and Pickering Street, it's a very busy street. We'll increase our patrols particularly in that area. We'll alert the local schools, private and state run schools. Hopefully when we finish our interviews today with those witnesses we'll have a better idea of a description. We're hoping to get some sort of a confit if that's possible out there. It'll be the local detectives will conduct some investigations in relation to our local knowledge in the area. But look, there will be someone out there who will picture someone with a lazy eye, wears a stutter or an earring in one of his ears, is short, balling from the front, who wears a white oversized T-shirt or singlet today. There will be someone, if he is a local, that will jog someone's memory and we ask those people to come forward and help us. I won't go into any of the conversation, and can I just say we're still in the process of formalising a statement with the witness, so I'd be going beyond my bounds of knowledge to say any more. Was it only today that other witnesses had seen this bloke? That's correct, yeah. We have no reports of any suspicious behaviour previously to today. We have no other similar incidents like this. So today is the first time by our appeal that may jog people's memories about some other behaviour. Sometimes people see something suspicious but they don't report it. We ask them to come forward. Thank you.