The woman was changing a baby's diaper in a restroom at Perimeter Mall when a man grabbed her from behind and pressed against her.
Within moments, her friend pushed him out the door and continued to push him — while men and other women passed by on their ways to the restroom — until mall security arrived.
The man arrested — Kennedy Miranda — is believed to be someone who has had a series of inappropriate contact with women in stores in DeKalb and Gwinnett counties in just one week in June because they have shared his picture with other law enforcement.
As it stands now, DeKalb County Solicitor Sherry Boston said, Miranda could face more serious charges but she won't know until she talks to the women from the June 19 attack in the women's restroom at the food court.
She just doesn't know who they are because mall security officers did not get their names when they took their statements.
So Boston is distributing photos of the women in hopes they will see themselves and come forward or someone will recognize them and call her office [404-687-7114].
"We have zero ways of finding these women," Boston said.
Miranda has not yet entered a plea. He is being held in the DeKalb County Jail. Miranda does not have an attorney yet so there was no one to speak for him.
Miranda is already a suspect in three cases in Gwinnett County and one other in DeKalb because the victims in those cases identified him after seeing pictures of him taken after he was arrested at Perimeter Mall on June 19.
According to police records, the first instance was in Gwinnett County on June 17.
Miranda was charged with kidnapping after he allegedly tried to pull a woman from the magazine section in a Barnes & Nobel, telling her "she was 'the one.'"
He is accused of four incidents on June 19, including the one with the unidentified victim in a public restroom.
Early in the day, Miranda went to a dressing room at a store in Norcross where two female employees were folding T-shirts. "I am God. I am looking for a woman to make love to," Miranda said, according to the police report.
Then he allegedly exposed himself to woman pushing a baby stroller on a Norcross sidewalk.
And he headed to Dunwoody and Perimeter Mall.
An employee at American Eagle Outfitters reported that Miranda had tried to pull her into an empty dressing room.
An hour later, a surveillance camera captured Miranda following two women into a restroom near the food court. Minutes passed until the camera trained on the door to the women's restroom recorded images of a woman wearing orange shorts pushing Miranda toward the door and into the hall. She grabs him and appears to be yelling as several people walk by.
Security officers arrived within moments, detained Miranda and took statements from the two women. They did not get their names, however.
"The woman in this video ... helped us catch and identify this predator," Boston said. "This is the only case in which he was immediately apprehended. She did everything you would want someone to do. She was not fearful."
The video shows the two leaving, the woman in the orange shorts pushing a carriage and the woman in yellow holding a baby.
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