in World News NYPD detective busted for masturbating while peering into Long Island homes is a serial offender
BY Edgar Sandoval Stephen Rex Brown
An off-duty NYPD detective busted for peering into women’s windows and pleasuring himself is a serial perv who has committed the sick act many times, police in Long Island said Monday.
Rockville Police Department Commissioner Charles Gennario detailed the two-month investigation that led to Det. Robert Francis, 46, being charged with four counts public lewdness.
Rockville detectives received three separate reports beginning Feb. 5 about a man who would get the attention of a woman by shining a light in her window. He’d then begin fondling himself. When the woman ran to get help, the perverted suspect would flee the scene, Gennario said.
On Friday — after several weeks without a report of a peeping tom, he struck again.
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“Same M.O. male exposing himself, getting the attention of a female resident. When she looked, he would start masturbating. When she would go to get help, he would run away,” Gennario said.
On Saturday, police received a report of a suspicious person in a driveway and arrested Francis before he acted, Gennario said.
The detective with 17 years on the force was carrying a flashlight and fit descriptions of the suspect, police said.
His motive remained a mystery. He has a wife and kids.
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“He kept telling investigative detectives that he was going through tough times. To really tell you the truth, at this point I spoke to my detective just before we came in here and he was concerned that he may harm himself,” Gennario said.
“He said he has done this in other jurisdictions.”
The NYPD has suspended Francis and taken his firearm.
Among Francis’s victims were young girls in high school who were “very fearful,” Gennario said. He added that the age of the victims appeared to be a coincidence.
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No one answered the door at Francis’s home in Springfield Gardens, Queens.