Personal Narrative: The Walking Path

I was in at Save-A-Lot a couple of weeks ago and while I was in line to check out, I overheard a lady talk about a man that was following her on the walking path behind my house. She was talking about how this man would follow her for a couple hundred feet then stop, completely strip down, and would start performing sexual acts on himself. She said that she doesn’t feel comfortable walking on the walking path anymore. We need to take action to stop these things from happening and make the walking path safer. The walking path is about half a mile behind my house. At some parts of the walking path, I am able to see my house, that’s how close it is. The walking path goes through Cuyahoga, Summit, Stark, and Tuscarawas counties. The area that my problem is happening in is in Stark County in Massillon. There are twenty-five miles that go through Stark County. Most of the walking path in my area is pavement, but some parts of it is gravel. The walking path is surrounded in big old trees with the sun shining through the leaves. When looking at pictures at it online, it looks like a safe place to just enjoy the fresh air and not have to worry about anything. The community that I live in isn’t the fanciest of
A very similar experience happened to a lady in Jacksonville, North Carolina. A news article from Jacksonville news was put out two years ago about this. Jacksonville news states, “Christopher Blaine Edward Williams, 28, of Court Street, was charged Friday by the Jacksonville Police Department with indecent exposure. Williams is accused of exposing his penis while masturbating along the wooded part of the bicycle trail approaching the Hargett Street intersection of the Rails to Trails path in the presence of a female, according to warrants.” (jdnews 2013). The situation that was described in the rest of the article is very similar to what I had overheard in the grocery