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Deputies investigate attempted child abduction in Avalon Park

Two mothers told Orange County deputies that their children were riding bicycles Saturday on Avalon Park Boulevard, when a man tried to pull one of the girls, who is 11 years old, off her bicycle. The girls had just left the CVS store.

Now deputies are stepping up patrols in the area.

According to investigators, the girl told them that she was able to escape when the second girl grabbed her and helped her.  The girls said they rode away on their bicycles and stopped to rest on a bench when they saw the man again.

The girl provided a vague description of the man, said he was in his 30s, with dark hair and a beard. The child's father said that deputies and the girl will try to come up with a composite sketch Tuesday.

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