The public library is one of the last places you’d expect to find inappropriate behavior targeting children, but that’s exactly the case in tonight’s Crime Stoppers report.
Lexington police say that on March 10th and again on May 2nd, a man was caught on surveillance video engaging in sexual activity while watching children.
According to Detective Mark Thomas, “We had reports of a man on the second floor, which is the children’s wing, and he was observed by a witness masturbating in one of the aisles. He moved through the rows and was actually looking at children through the books.”
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The suspect is described as man in his late thirties to early forties, around 5 foot 9 and weighing 200 pounds. He was wearing a red shirt, black flat-billed hat and blue sweat pants. Police say he could be a registered sex offender, and may have engaged in this kind of behavior before.
“It’s been very difficult for us knowing who he is,” Detective Thomas adds, “but not being able to lay hands on him.”
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