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Left: Surveillance video shows child sex offender Kevin Hurley allegedly speaking to a 10-year-old girl while in line at a Home Depot in Florida. Right: Kevin Hurley (Law&Crime).
A sex offender in Florida was allegedly caught on camera following a 10-year-old girl and her mother through a parking lot after telling the girl that she was “so beautiful.”
Kevin Hurley, 60, allegedly addressed the girl during a July 4 visit to a Home Depot in Miami. Although the surveillance footage is silent, he is alleged to have spoken to them as he was making a merchandise return.
“I love your Mickey ears,” he allegedly said, “and I think you’re too big to be in that shopping cart.”
“I think you’re so beautiful,” he then said, according to a police report.
A police report says that Hurley’s “erratic” behavior caught the mother’s attention, and she took a picture of him.
“After pacing the aisle at least three times, [Hurley] attempted to approach the victim from behind but is deterred and resumes walking around the area before leaving the store,” the police report says.
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The video shows Hurley following the girl and her mother through the parking lot with his car. Footage also shows him reversing his black car to follow the alleged victims as they made their way to their car. Aware that she was being followed, the girl’s mother did not get into her car, and the footage shows Hurley — who spent several minutes waiting at a stop sign in view of the mother and daughter — being confronted by a man pointing in the direction of the alleged victims.
Hurley then drives out of the parking lot.
Hurley appears on the Sunshine State’s sex offender registry. He was convicted in 2014 of sexual battery and molestation of a victim between 12 and 15 years old. He was sentenced to five years in prison and was released on probation in 2017.
He has now been charged with felony aggravated stalking of a minor. Records show that he is currently in custody.
As Law&Crime’s Jesse Weber discussed with attorney John Clune, Hurley appeared to be wearing an ankle monitor at the time he allegedly spoke to the child.
“It’s a particularly bold individual,” Clune said. “To do this in front of the child’s parent is really unusual and to make a statement like ‘I think you’re so beautiful’ in front of other adults … this is somebody who is not engaging in the more secretive grooming behavior that we usually see from somebody who is a child sex offender.”
Hurley is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with a minor.
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