Targeting Women Only: Flurry of Eyewitness Accounts of Public Indecent Exposure in Daejeon

Police have launched an investigation following a series of reports about a so-called flashers appearing near Dosolsan Mountain in Seo-gu, Daejeon, but his whereabouts remain unknown after five months.

According to the Daejeon Provincial Police Agency on September 22, following a report received on April 26 that a man was standing with his pants down near a girls' high school in Seo-gu, Daejeon, similar 112 emergency calls have continued to pour in from the vicinity of the girls' high school and nearby Dosolsan Mountain until recently.

Eyewitness accounts claiming to have seen a flasher in the Seo-gu area have also been continuously posted on local online communities and social networking services (SNS) in Daejeon.

According to eyewitness accounts, the man is known to appear three to four times a week at most over the past several months.

According to police, the suspect, believed to be the same person, mostly appears wearing a mask or completely covering his face, drops his pants to expose specific body parts, or engages in obscene acts.

Although police launched an investigation after the first report in April, the suspect has been evading police tracking by committing crimes in a flash targeting only when women are present or changing clothes in the mountain without revealing his face.

In particular, police are having difficulty identifying the suspect because he exclusively uses hiking trails and walking paths near girls' high schools where there are no closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras.

Police are securing all CCTVs at access points near the hiking and walking trails where the suspect frequently appears, analyzing them repeatedly to figure out his movement routes.

A police official stated, "The suspect seems to be well-acquainted with the geography and road conditions of the Daejeon area," adding, "We have stepped up patrols centered around the areas where reports were made and deployed a large number of personnel to track him down."

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