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DA: Office Depot worker molested teen girl in bathroom of Cobb store

Mugshot of Eric Walker

Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office

Credit: Cobb County Sheriff's Office

Mugshot of Eric Walker
By Ben Brasch
March 15, 2018

A 27-year-old Austell man was sentenced Tuesday to spend a decade in prison for molesting a girl in the bathroom of where he worked, according to Cobb County prosecutors.

Eric Lashaun Walker was working June 17, 2015, when a 14-year-old girl walked into the bathroom at the Office Depot on Cobb Parkway, according to a Smyrna police warrant.

He followed her into the 8-by-8 bathroom and touched her, the warrant said. Walker didn’t know the girl.

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“This defendant was a true predator that chose a victim of opportunity,” prosecutor Drew Healy said in a news release. “Our community is now safer due to this child coming forward and disclosing her abuse.”

Once released, Walker will spend another decade on probation.

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