BY CHRISTINE WOLFF
The Cincinnati Enquirer
MADEIRA -- Repeat the "stranger danger" speech, Madeira school officials are urging parents after an attempted abduction Friday of a local teen-ager.
Madeira students will take home letters this week from Superintendent Michele Hummel, reminding families that children of all ages need to be told what to do in dangerous encounters. Friday's incident was the second time since August that someone has tried to lure Madeira teens into a car.
"All students involved were safe because they knew what to do," Ms. Hummel said. "My biggest concern is that parents don't get a false sense of security about being in Madeira. Miami Avenue is a busy street, used by hundreds of (people.)"
Ms. Hummel said she asked all of the district's teachers Monday to talk to students this week, in age-appropriate ways, about the incident, to "go over it all one more time."
Police have released a sketch of the man the 13-year-old girl said ordered her into his car about 3:45 p.m. Friday, as she jogged on Miami Avenue near Shawnee Run Road. She quickly turned around and ran in the opposite direction.
She was running alone, but groups of other members of the cross-country team from Madeira Junior - Senior High School were jogging nearby. The girl ran a short distance to her coach, who took her to the Madeira police station to make a report.
The incident remains under investigation by Madeira police. The man is described as white, in his late 20s with short brown hair and a mustache. He was driving a small, black, four-door car with tinted windows, said Officer Scott Davis.
The August incident happened during the day near Miami Avenue and Greenbriar, when a man tried to entice two junior-high school students into a car.
Descriptions of the two men were not similar.
