Sheriff: If Dad ‘Stomped Him Into A Mud Puddle, We Would’ve Been Effective…’

After the arrest of a 50-year-old Florida man, a sheriff went on report to say that, had a 7-year-old woman’s dad “stomped him right into a mud puddle, we might’ve been advantageous with that.” When listening to what the person was caught on digital camera doing, it’s exhausting to disagree.

Throughout a press convention, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson shared footage of Eric Straight committing his alleged crime. (Photograph Credit score: Screenshot)

Eric Straight, a 50-year-old Navarre, Florida man, was arrested and charged after being caught on digital camera exterior a 7-year-old woman’s bed room. After what he was seen doing, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson didn’t mince phrases when it got here to condemning the perp.

Straight repeatedly knocked on the window of the 7-year-old woman’s bed room and even spoke to the teen with out her mother and father’ permission, authorities mentioned. Sadly, that wasn’t the worst of it. Suspecting one thing was happening, the woman’s mother and father had positioned cameras exterior, the NY Publish reported, and what they captured is sufficient to make any respectable individual’s pores and skin crawl.

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Eric Straight, 50, caught on digital camera exterior a 7-year-old woman’s bed room (Photograph Credit score: Screenshot)

Not solely was Straight making an attempt to get the kid’s consideration in the course of the evening, however he was additionally bare when he was caught on video exterior her window. Making issues worse, he had visited the woman’s window on not less than 5 separate events, based on Sheriff Johnson. Calling Straight a “scumbag,” Johnson mentioned he went to the woman’s window thrice on one Friday evening in an try and get her consideration.

In keeping with an arrest report obtained by the Pensacola Information Journal, the woman’s mother and father put in the safety digital camera after rising suspicious of Eric Straight, who occurred to be their neighbor. “Straight is a professed nudist,” the report said. “The homeowners of the property and fogeys of the sufferer have particularly instructed him up to now, he isn’t permitted on their property nude.”

Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson (Photograph Credit score: Screenshot)

Sadly, Straight didn’t heed their warning. As an alternative, he visited the woman’s window a number of occasions. “Each time he knocks on the window, he’s bare,” the sheriff mentioned, expressing apparent disgust. Straight was additionally noticed on the surveillance digital camera eradicating a display screen from the woman’s bed room window. “The mother and father said they’ve discovered the display screen faraway from her window twice,” police wrote of their report.

After being captured on digital camera late one Saturday, carrying a “revealing thong-like garment,” based on police, the woman’s mother and father have been capable of determine Straight, who seemed to be aroused in a few of the disturbing footage. Her involved father contacted the sheriff’s workplace, and Straight was arrested and charged with aggravated stalking of a sufferer below 12 and trespassing.

Eric Straight
Eric Straight, 50, was charged after being seen on video knocking on a 7-year-old’s bed room window whereas bare. (Photograph Credit score: SRCSO)

Sheriff Johnson then held a press convention, the place he didn’t maintain again whereas expressing his ideas on the matter. “At my press conferences, typically, I get a bit of heated as a result of we focus on some actually unhealthy issues. However at the moment, I believe we broke a report,” Sheriff Johnson started earlier than displaying footage of Straight exterior the kid’s window.

“Now, this isn’t his home he’s at, that is his neighbor’s,” Johnson defined. “And, sure, he’s bare. And, not solely is he bare, the window he’s knocking on belongs to a 7-year-old woman,” he continued. “He is aware of that window belongs to the 7-year-old’s bed room,” Johnson instructed reporters. “So, he is aware of that, and he’s bare and knocking on that window?”

The kid instructed police that she had spoken to Eric Straight 5 occasions after he knocked on her window, together with as soon as when she let him see her with a Halloween costume on, the arrest report mentioned. Explaining that he’s a father himself, Santa Rosa County Sheriff Bob Johnson praised the mother and father for his or her restraint, saying issues may have turned out a lot in a different way — and if they’d, he wouldn’t have blamed the mother and father.

“I can’t make this up. A 50-year-old man, bare, knocking on a 7-year-old woman’s window,” Johnson mentioned in disbelief. “Yeah, if [the girl’s father] would have come out and stomped him right into a mud puddle, we might’ve been advantageous with that,” he unapologetically declared. “Matter of truth, I sort of want it might’ve ended that approach.” I don’t assume many would disagree.