Girl, 11, touched on buttocks at Target in Merrifield

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MERRIFIELD, Va. (AP) - Police say an 11-year-old girl was molested while shopping with her father at the Target at the Mosaic District in Merrifield.

Fairfax County police said in a news release that after the girl and her father got home late Saturday afternoon, she told him that a stranger had touched her buttocks while inside the store. The father called police to report the crime.

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Police say the girl's story was confirmed by security video from the store.

Police say the man who molested the girl was wearing a gray shirt and dark shorts and left the store in a burgundy Ford Mustang.