This episode contains descriptions of violence and sexual assault.

Use your best judgment.

Only 20% of rape victims are strangers to their attackers,

and only 15% of rape victims are between the ages of 12 and 17.

Tragically, Crystal Sealer, a 13-year-old from Rochester, New York, defied the odds.

While waiting for the school bus, standing just 70 feet from her front door,

a stranger grabbed her and assaulted her.

Within a short time period, the rapist assaulted a series of teenage

girls. The normal stressors of being a teenager, coupled with being assaulted, would be difficult

enough to overcome. But in this case, the sexual assault survivors also had to live with the knowledge that their rapist was free.

He could walk freely around their neighborhoods.

And he did.

For the next 10 years.

From A&E, this is Cold Case Files.

I'm Brooke, and here's Bill Curtis with a classic case, innocent stolen.

In November of 1995, Sergeant Mark Mariano investigates the rape of a 13-year-old schoolgirl.

The person came up from behind me,

and he told me not to say anything

and covered my mouth.

Crystal Seeler is in the seventh grade

when she finds herself alone,

in the dark, waiting for the bus to school.

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