Two females were sexually assaulted in separate incidents about 40 minutes apart in Brighton Thursday, leading police to believe the attacks are related, authorities said. The first attack occurred on Brighton Avenue at 7:50 p.m. The second one happened at 8:30 p.m. at Quint and Brighton avenues, Boston police said. Both victims described the suspect as a white man, in his late 30s to early 40s, about 5 foot 8, with short, brown hair and possibly balding. The assaults took place days after a 37-year-old Brighton woman reported a peeping Tom had been lurking outside the window of her Commonwealth Avenue apartment.
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