A woman on the Main Line called police after she saw her neighbor masturbating into a recycle can in his backyard while peering at her 5-year-old daughter playing with the family dog and the victim claimed this wasn’t the first time the man pleasured himself while looking into their yard.
The latest incident played out in a backyard in Wayne, Pennsylvania around noon Wednesday, said a criminal complaint obtained from Radnor Township Police.
The victim -- who police didn't identify -- told investigators that she approached her shirtless neighbor, Kevin Hartman, who wore a pair of blue pants that appeared to be ripped in front as he had his left hand on his genitals and asked “What are you doing?” At that point, Hartman secreted behind the yellow can, the woman told investigators.
The victim told investigators that she took a photo of Hartman, 54, masturbating into his recycling can back on July 8 – police said the photo shows Hartman only in a towel, his hand on his genitals in plain view above the wooden fence that stands about 2-feet tall. She said since then she saw him masturbating in his yard about eight other times.
The woman told police that this was the first time that she saw Hartman masturbating in front of her young daughter, said investigators. The girl said she could only see the man’s legs and not his genitals, said police.
When asked by officers Wednesday about the masturbation allegations, Hartman admitted to exposing himself outside because it excites him, said the criminal complaint. He said he masturbates outside because it is more exciting than pleasuring himself in his bedroom.
"The possibility to actually be seen by his neighbor excited him and that's the reason for him doing this," said Radnor police Lt. T.J. Schreiber.
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Hartman said he got the urge to masturbate Wednesday while he was taking out some recyclables, said police.
Police charged Hartman with corruption of minors, lewd harassment, making an obscene gesture, indecent exposure and open lewdness. Hartman remained jailed unable to post 10 percent of $30,000 bail Thursday, said court records.
