NAVARRE, Fla. — A Florida couple installed a security camera after becoming suspicious of their nudist neighbor and caught the man walking on their property at night and speaking to their 7-year-old daughter through her bedroom window, Santa Rosa County authorities confirmed Tuesday.
Deputies say Eric Straight, 50, went to the 7-year-old Santa Rosa County girl's bedroom window while naked for several nights in a row. He has been released on bond. https://t.co/0O3YSFECuD
— WEAR ABC 3 (@weartv) August 18, 2020
Eric Straight, 50, of Navarre was arrested Sunday and charged with trespassing and aggravated stalking of a victim under the age of 12, the Pensacola News Journal reported.
He has since been released on $27,500 bond but is bound by a restraining order making it illegal for him to go near the girl, the newspaper reported.
According to the arrest report, Straight, a “professed nudist,” was captured on surveillance video by the child’s bedroom window while nude on three separate occasions. The child’s parents had specifically told him in the past he was not permitted on their property while nude.
“He knows that window belonged to the 7-year-old’s bedroom. So he knows that, and he’s naked and knocked on that window? If (the girl’s father) would have come out and stomped him into a mud puddle, yeah, we would’ve been fine with that,” Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson said during a Tuesday news conference.
Straight has been known to the family for two years as a neighbor, WEAR reported.
On the night of Aug. 9, the girl’s mother observed a silhouette of a man by the window in her daughter’s room, called authorities and installed the security camera three days later, the arrest report stated.
The girl told authorities that she had spoken to Straight five times after he had knocked on her window and that, on one occasion, she modeled her Halloween costume for him through the window, the News Journal reported.
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