Toronto police are warning parents about a man who allegedly tried to lure children into his van while they were playing on school property.
Officials said that on May 12, police responded to a suspicious incident call at a school in the Pleasant Avenue/Cactus Avenue area in North York.
It’s reported that during lunch time children were enjoying recess when a man approached four young boys and offered them candy if they went to his van despite no van being visible to the children, according to a press release issued Thursday.
The boys ran away and reported what happened to their teacher.
The suspect is described as a man in his teens or early 20s, with curly black hair, wearing a black shirt, dark pants, running shoes.
He was riding a black mountain bike and carrying a peach coloured backpack.
Toronto police told Now Toronto in an emailed statement that parents should not only talk to their children about “stranger danger” but “safety with actions that make them feel uncomfortable, whether they are strangers or not.”
Anyone with information is asked to contact police at 416-808-3200, Crime Stoppers anonymously at 416-222-TIPS (8477).