Residents of a South Jersey apartment complex helped bring a child luring suspect to justice.
Washington Township Police credited residents of the Washington Way apartments along Barnsboro Road in Blackwood with assisting them in arresting Gregory Scott -- who lives in the apartment complex.
A mother returned to her apartment of the L Building on Aug. 26 to find a man leaning into her 6-year-old daughter's first-floor window. The girl told investigators that the man in her window told her he was a doctor and a friend of her father's who she could call “Joe,” said Washington Township Police.
Police said before being scared off, the creeper took a cellphone photo of the girl and made a disturbing promise, the girl's mother exclusively told NBC10's George Spencer.
"He said that as long as you don't tell, I can come back every night," said the girl’s mother who asked not to be identified.
The man, luckily, never did return.
Police arrested Scott, 27, Tuesday afternoon and charged him with burglary and child luring. He remained in county jail Tuesday night, unable to post $40,000 bail.
The luring left the woman and her daughter shaken.
"I think she's just very confused because someone tried to make her feel like he was a friend," said the mother. "But we try to make her understand that he was a bad person."
No one answered the door at Scott's apartment -- which is just steps away from the victim's home -- Tuesday evening.
