Two 11-year-old girls are afraid to go out by themselves after a man exposed himself to them in a Lower Hutt alleyway.
The girls had just visited a dairy near the entrance to Stokes Valley on Saturday afternoon and were heading down a nearby alleyway, with the man walking ahead of them, said Emma McCarthy, the mother of one of the girls.
"He stopped and then he turned and faced them and he had his shorts down and he was waving his thing around," she said.
The girls "freaked out", ran back to the dairy, and told an adult, who called the police.
Police arrived with a dog and immediately headed down the alleyway, eventually finding a man. However the man did not fit the girls' description.