Police reassure parents after reports of assaults on children in Aspley

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Police have reassured parents in Aspley after a letter was sent out by a primary school saying children had been harmed by men in the street in separate incidents.

Rosslyn Park Primary, on Amesbury Circus, wrote earlier in the week warning staff understood a local child had been ‘seriously injured’ in an assault on Monday, and another had been the victim of an attempted abduction on Coleby Road.

But police have since clarified the circumstances surrounding the reports, saying it is still not clear what happened in the first incident and the girl had only ‘minor injuries’.

Officers say they have no record of the second incident even being reported to police.

Pictures of the letter were circulated on Facebook and a second school, Ambleside Primary, also ran the reports in another letter to its parents.

Pictures of the Ambleside letter have been shared more than 300 times on Facebook.

A spokesman for Notts Police said while officers are investigating the first incident, they had not yet established the exact circumstances of how the child was injured.

They added: “Our enquiries are ongoing to establish what happened. A girl was found to have minor injuries.

“We have had no report of the second incident referred to in the letter.”

The letter from Ambleside Primary School, which is on Minver Crescent, warned parents to be vigilant and said information passed to parents in the Rosslyn Park letter said “three men travelling by car assaulted the child, who sustained serious injuries” and in the second incident a “male tried to snatch a child near Colby Road on Monday evening”.