Fri, 19 Jun 1998

Wanted a foot fetishist

NEW YORK (Reuters): Police in Paramus, New Jersey, were seeking a man with an apparent fascination for feet after he attacked two women in the parking lot of a department store.

Detective Kevin Smith said the suspect, described as being between 28 and 32 years old and sporting a goatee, surprised one woman as she was getting into her car outside Nordstrom's department store on Monday night, asking if he could massage her feet.

Some minutes later he grabbed another woman's leg from behind, knocking her into her car seat. Smith said the suspect took off her right shoe and tickled her foot.

"He asked her, 'Do you like it? Do you want more?,'" Smith said. The man was scared off by a passing car, he said.