Crime & Safety

Bicyclist Asks Kids To Change His Diaper: Cops

Police asked the public to help identify a man who has twice offered money to kids to change his diaper in the woods near Morton Grove.

A man offered money to children on July 8 and July 11 in exchange for changing a diaper, police said.
A man offered money to children on July 8 and July 11 in exchange for changing a diaper, police said. (Cook County Sheriff's Office)

MORTON GROVE, IL — An unidentified man has offered money to children to change his diaper at least twice in the past two weeks, police said.

The first incident of the man soliciting children took place on July 8 on a bike trail near Harms Woods, according to the Cook County Sheriff's Office.

It happened again between 3 and 6 p.m. July 11 on a Cook County Forest Preserve bike trail near Morton Grove, according to the sheriff's office.

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The man rode up to several children on the trail in a small-framed, black and red bicycle.

He then pulled down his pants and offered to pay the children to change his diaper.

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The children ran away and reported the incident.

The sheriff's office released a sketch of the suspect, asking the public to contact detectives with Cook County sheriff's police to identify him.

Police said the man was described as between 20 and 30 years old, between 5 feet, 10 inches and six feet tall, weighing 170 to 200 pounds and white.

The man has brown hair and his face was unshaven at the time of the incident. It appeared he was wearing some type of diaper at the time, according to a sheriff's office spokesperson.

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