A man has been criminally charged following an unsettling encounter with a child at a Silver Spring Dave & Buster’s. 30-year-old Christopher Michael Simpson of Germantown is facing allegations of assaulting a 10-year-old by removing and smelling the child’s footwear. The Montgomery County Department of Police reports that the incident transpired on the night of September 24, 2025, with the arrest warrant encompassing second-degree assault and sexual assault-related offenses, as per details Fox 5 DC provided.
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, detectives from the 3rd District Patrol Investigative Unit of the Montgomery County Police state that, while at Dave and Buster’s located at the 8600 block of Colesville Road, Simpson approached the young arcade-goer, removed the child’s socks and shoes, and proceeded to smell their feet, the authorities, having pieced together this narrative from their investigative work, apprehended the suspect after the incident came to light and upon garnering sufficient evidence…