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Dalton Police seek man on sexual charges, and more Chattanooga region news

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Dalton Police seek man on sexual charges

DALTON, Ga. – The Dalton Police Department is asking for information on the whereabouts of 57-year-old Lawrence Edward “Larry” Womac.

He is wanted on warrants for rape, aggravated assault, aggravated sodomy, false imprisonment, cruelty to children in the first degree, sexual battery against a child under 16 years of age, and aggravated child molestation.

Shortly after midnight on Friday, Womac invited two juvenile girls into his room at the Guest Inn at 2220 Chattanooga Road.

The girls were guests at the hotel staying in a different room. Womac raped one of the girls and sexually assaulted the other, police said. Both girls fled. The incident was reported to police.