Sex offender stalked 10-year-old girl and mother at Home Depot: Police
Left: Surveillance video shows sex offender Kevin Hurley allegedly talking to a 10-year-old girl in line at a Home Depot in Florida. Right: Kevin Hurley (Law&Crime).
A sex offender in Florida was allegedly filmed following a 10-year-old girl and her mother through a parking lot after telling the girl she was “so beautiful.”
Kevin Hurley, 60, allegedly approached the girls during a visit to a Home Depot in Miami on July 4. Although the surveillance footage is silent, he allegedly spoke to them while making a merchandise return.
“I love your Mickey ears,” he is said to have said, “and I think you’re too big for this shopping cart.”
“I think you are so beautiful,” he said at the time, according to a police report.
A police report said Hurley’s “erratic” behavior caught his mother’s attention and she took a photo of him.
“After pacing up and down the aisle at least three times, (Hurley) attempted to approach the victim from behind but was dissuaded and continued to walk around the area before leaving the store,” the police report said.
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The video shows Hurley following the girl and her mother through the parking lot in his car. The footage also shows him backing up his black car to follow the alleged victims walking to their car. The girl’s mother was aware she was being followed but did not get in her car. The footage shows Hurley – who waited for several minutes at a stop sign within sight of the mother and daughter – being confronted by a man pointing in the direction of the alleged victims.
Hurley then drives out of the parking lot.
Hurley is on the Sunshine State’s sex offender registry. He was convicted in 2014 of sexual assault and sexual battery of a victim between the ages of 12 and 15. He was sentenced to five years in prison and released on parole in 2017.
He has now been charged with aggravated stalking of a minor. According to the files, he is currently in custody.
As Jesse Weber of Law&Crime discussed with attorney John Clune, Hurley was apparently wearing an ankle bracelet when he allegedly spoke to the child.
“This is a particularly brazen individual,” Clune said. “To do something like this in front of the child’s parents is really unusual, and to make a statement like ‘I think you’re so beautiful’ in front of other adults … this is someone who doesn’t engage in the more covert grooming behavior that we typically see from child sex offenders.”
Hurley is prohibited from having unsupervised contact with minors.
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