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| Elijah Slocumb |
A woman called police on a Florida beach goer after she spotted him masturbating next to her.
The 35-year-old woman who is a regular visitor to the Smathers Beach, told police that the man was sitting next to her on the beach, had exposed himself and masturbated, according to an arrest affidavit by the West Key Police Department.
When the first police officer arrived, he saw the man, who was identified as Elijah Slocumb, of Key West, but the officer could not clearly see what the man was doing. “I saw the man moving his arms but I could not determine the motion,” the officer wrote in his report.
As soon as the 42-year-old man saw the officer he "immediately grabbed a blue towel" and seemed to wipe his hands with it, the affidavit said.
“At the beach there are certainly a lot of hot women, but masturbating in public is just wrong and disgusting. The least he could have done is cover himself with his towel so women don’t see and freak out by what he was doing near them,” Robert Taylor, 55, of South beach, Florida told YourJewishNews.com after learing about the disturbing incident at the beach.
The woman told officers that Slocumb, initially sat several feet away from where she was reading a book. However, when she looked up to watch a few kite surfers, she realized that the man was masturbating. In the report, the officer noted that Slocumb was sober. Police arrested and charged him with intentionally masturbating and exposing his genitals in a "lewd and lascivious exhibition."