A Honduran nationwide grabbed three younger women’ butts in separate incidents at a Lengthy Island TJ Maxx and was caught pleasuring himself whereas watching one of many victims, police stated.
Pervy Jimmy Harry Velasquez Gomez, 44, was indicted on a number of baby sex-abuse expenses Friday after investigators allegedly caught him on the shop’s surveillance digicam groping younger women between the ages of seven and 11 — in three separate encounters over a span of months.
“The fees in opposition to this defendant describe disturbing acts of sexual abuse that strike on the coronary heart of our neighborhood’s sense of security,” Suffolk District Lawyer Ray Tierney stated.
The disgusting shows stretched from April via October and concerned incidents with a younger lady every time who had briefly stepped away from her mother and father whereas shopping the toy aisle, prosecutors stated.
Initially on April 19, police stated a 7-year-old and her mom reported {that a} man, later recognized as Gomez, approached the kid within the aisle and grabbed her butt earlier than taking off when the kid went to inform her mother.
Months later, on Sept. 20, an 11-year-old instructed her mother and father that Gomez did the identical to them as he walked previous her.
The creep allegedly struck once more on Oct. 29, stalking a 9-year-old lady throughout the shop and rubbing himself over his pants as he watched her store earlier than additionally touching her.
Gomez’s lawyer, Joseph Hanshe, beforehand claimed his shopper solely “brushed alongside” the kids as he was making an attempt to cross them within the retailer.
Surveillance footage from all three dates, nevertheless, confirmed Gomez within the retailer performing intentionally, investigators stated.
Gomez, initially from Honduras, was taken into custody and arraigned Nov. 14 on expenses together with first- and second-degree sexual abuse and endangering the welfare of a kid.
He’s been held on bail as much as $3.5 million.
Hanshe didn’t return The Publish’s request for remark.
