Man Sought In Mall Exposure Incident

WEST WHITELAND TWP. - Police in Chester County are looking for a man who they said exposed himself to a boy in the bathroom of Macy's at the Exton Square Mall.

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The boy and his father talked exclusively to Fox 29 because they want the person who did this to be caught. Their identities have been concealed due to the nature of the incident.

The 12-year-old boy is traumatized and said he doesn't feel safe being alone in public places anymore.

"I could hear what he was doing," said the victim. "I got really uncomfortable. I was panicked and scared. I didn't know what to do."

The boy was with his parents Saturday at the Macy's inside Exton Square Mall. He was in a stall when the man allegedly made contact with him.

"He looked into the crack of the stall," said the boy. Then he says the suspect went into the stall next to him and the unexpected happened.

"He kneeled down and exposed himself. He exposed his bottom part to me," the boy said.

The boy courageously made a run for it and told his parents. But on the way to security, they said they saw the suspect twice. The boy's father said his first thought was, "I was this close to punching the guy because I was so furious."

But the guy got away. Then police say the suspect came back. They have surveillance video of him walking around.

"That person on the video had been seen walking back and forth walking back and forth to that bathroom about four times that night," said Detective Scott Pezick with West Whiteland Township Police.

That angered the victim's father even more. He said, "That guy should be behind bars for several years. People like that are dangerous, you know."

Police said several years ago they arrested men for meeting up in this same Macy's bathroom for sex acts.

Mall media relations said they are working with police on this investigation. They are not doing anything extra in response to the incident.