Southland : Parents Batter Man Annoying Girls

A man who offered money to two little girls to accompany him away from their homes was chased down and severely beaten by enraged parents, police said today.

Martin Gamez, 26, of Tijuana offered the girls, one of them 6 years old, money to accompany him away from the Los Angeles apartment complex where they live, Sgt. Doug Tantee said.

“The girls ran and told their parents, just as they should,” Tantee said. A short time later, about 6 p.m. Tuesday, angry parents at the large apartment complex chased down Gamez and beat him, the sergeant said. Paramedics took Gamez to the jail ward at County-USC Medical Center, where doctors treated him for a broken jaw, blackened eyes and numerous cuts and bruises. He was booked on suspicion of child annoying.