With rising temperatures come male flashers.
Over the course of two days last week, Prince William County police logged three cases of males dropping their pants and exposing their privates to two women and a teenage girl. In one of those incidents, police said, an 8-year-old girl also was victimized.
“It’s hot out there,” police spokeswoman Sharon Richardson said. “I guess they’re just coming out of the woodwork.”
Richardson said there is no indication the incidents are connected. The cases were in Woodbridge, Lake Ridge and Dale City; the flashers were of different races, ages and size.
Prince William has a not-too-distant history with warm weather sexual acts in public places.
This time last year, police rounded up eight men who were having sex in family-friendly Locust Shade Park. The crackdown brought an end to the park’s popularity as a home for indiscreet homosexual activities, police said.
This year’s incidents started June 2, police said.
A 28-year-old Lake Ridge woman told police a man knocked on her door around 11:30 p.m. When she opened the door, the man asked her questions, dropped his pants and then “began lewd behavior,” police said.
The suspect is a heavyset white man in his early 40s. He was wearing a baseball cap, a plain gray T-shirt and blue-green shorts.
The next afternoon, a 17-year-old Dale City girl was walking to work when a man driving what she described to police as a light blue “boxy” style vehicle pulled up and asked her for directions. As she approached, she saw the man was exposing himself. She backed away and he drove off.
The suspect is white and between 25 and 35 years old. He had a thin build and light brown hair.
That evening a 33-year-old Woodbridge woman was walking with her 8-year-old daughter on a wooded path when a boy around 14 years old asked for their help returning a turtle to the woods. After doing so, the boy walked away and then shouted. When the two turned around he had the front of his black shorts pulled down. The teen, who was black, took off on a silver bicycle.
