A prolific intercourse offender is accused of exposing himself to ladies and youngsters in ladies’ locker rooms at public colleges and neighborhood facilities in Virginia whereas claiming to be a transgender lady.
Richard Cox, a 58-year-old, balding pervert on the best stage of the intercourse offender registry, appeared in courtroom in Arlington on Thursday and repeatedly insisted he’s now a lady and demanded the prosecutor be ordered to cease misgendering him.
Nevertheless, the choose declined to take action — noting how dozens of horrified witnesses had seen he was bodily nonetheless a male when he stripped bare and touched himself in native public locker rooms.
In a single case, Cox — whose prolonged rap sheet of intercourse crimes stretches greater than 30 years — was accused of spying on ladies whereas bare in altering rooms shared by a highschool that permits individuals to make use of bogs primarily based on their chosen gender identification.
One disturbed mom additionally mentioned she and her 5-year-old daughter went to make use of a public ladies’s locker at a faculty after a swim class when she noticed Cox touching himself whereas nude in a bathe stall with the curtain open, WJLA reported.
One other lady mentioned she and her two daughters, ages 5 and 6, had been on the Barcroft Sports activities and Health Middle for a gymnastics class once they discovered Cox bare within the ladies’ locker room there.
A 17-year-old lifeguard who labored at one of many Arlington swimming pools mentioned she witnessed Cox bare in a faculty locker room — as did different ladies who testified on the listening to.
The bushy pervert additionally had little one pornography on his telephone — and a schedule for kids’s gymnastic courses on the Barcroft fitness center, a detective testified.
The identical detective discovered youngsters’s swimming lesson schedules for rec facilities in neighboring Fairfax County — the place he has additionally been seen lurking round youngsters, in response to the outlet.
Cox is a Tier III intercourse offender — essentially the most critical sort, which requires a lifetime registration, in response to courtroom paperwork. He was first positioned on the registry in 1998, information present.
He was arrested in December for allegedly spying on ladies whereas bare within the feminine altering rooms at Arlington’s swimming middle, which shares amenities with Washington-Liberty Excessive Faculty.
Arlington Public Faculties permits individuals to make use of locker rooms and bogs of their selection primarily based on their chosen gender identification.
He’s had current run-ins with legislation enforcement for comparable acts going again a number of months earlier than his arrest, resulting in a number of complaints.
Cox was hit with 29 complete fees associated to the sex-crime spree since 2024, in response to jail information. His case in Arlington goes earlier than the grand jury subsequent week.
He has a rap sheet of intercourse crimes going again to 1992, information present.
