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Saturday, January 1, 2011

Police Arrest Man in Alleged Molestation at Mall

Wednesday, Cobb County police arrested a Woodstock man after he allegedly inappropriately touched a 7-year-old girl twice at Town Center Mall.

Wednesday, Cobb County police arrested a Woodstock man who allegedly inappropriately touched a 7-year-old girl at Town Center Mall. Officer Joseph Hernandez said the 7-year-old girl and a 10-year-old girl were at the mall with a family member when 31-year-old Andres Wilhelm Schafer, of 523 West Oaks Drive, Woodstock, walked by and touched the younger girl twice. The older child witnessed one of the incidents and notified the adult. The arrest warrant indicates the incidents occurred between 1:30 and 3 pm on the escalator and in the shoe department of Belk. Hernandez called the touches "disturbing, not graphic … in passing kind of swipe[s]." The arrest warrant alleges Schafer rubbed two areas of the child's body during the incidents. …

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