Girl, 12, assaulted at Vic shopping centre

A man preyed on two young girls at a shopping centre last month, stalking one then sexually assaulting the other, police say.

The man is alleged to have stalked a 13-year-old girl, following her around the Fountain Gate Shopping Centre, before he approached a 12-year-old girl and sexually assaulted her.

Police are searching for a man described as being in his 30s, of medium build and tanned skin, with a lazy eye who was at the shopping centre about 1.30pm on November 26.