ALCOA, Tenn. (WVLT) -- The search is on for a man who parents say fondled girls at a public skating rink in Alcoa over the weekend.

Frankie Childs says growing up he used to go to the skating rink himself and says he never anticipated something like that could happen, but a parent who stopped taking his son to the rink more than a year ago says he's not surprised.

Childs says, "I had anger running through me. Be honest with you, I was wanting to do some un-Christian-like things."

Frankie Childs is still wondering how an older man could molest his fourteen year old stepdaughter on at an Alcoa skating rink.

Childs says, "A man that -- he was in his late 40's, early 50's -- I feel shouldn't be at a skating rink no how without any kids."

Police are investigating the Saturday evening incident at the Smoky Mountain Skate Center, where a man attempted to fondle as many as four girls while skating, even pushing a boy down in the process.

The center's owner says he confronted the man when the girls between the ages of 12 and 14 told him what happened.

(Kay)
"He knew that the police were on the way. He turned and said I'm not sticking around. I said, you need to stay right where you're at. He said, no, I'm not sticking around."

Childs said the man left as he got to the rink and attempted to confront him. But the owner says he's been there before.

(Kay)
"It was about three years ago and we had thrown him out once for a year for skating too fast running into people."

Parent Edward Carter says, "I think they should take down that safe place sign up there. The children's safe place sign. I don't think they've earned it."

Carter says he hasn't let his son come back to the rink in more than a year since he saw kids throwing ice onto the floor.

(Carter)
"I spoke to the kids. They were snappy. There's no real supervision, so I always stayed here with my son."

And that's something Childs plans to do in the future.

"Well, if my kids go, even my sons, and one of them is 15, we'll be out there with them now."

Kay says they do have supervision there -- a floor guard and two or three people watching the floor at all times.

At this time, there have been no arrests, but Alcoa police say they are narrowing down a list of possible suspects.