Crime & Safety
Police: Man Exposed Himself to Teen Girls in Maplewood
The 48-year-old man committed the acts a block away from Maplewood Richmond Heights High School, Maplewood police stated.
arrested a man on suspicion of exposing and touching his genitals as two 16-year-old girls walked by his house at about 9:25 a.m. Tuesday. The house is about a block away from .
Kenneth W. Gooch, 48, of the 2500 block of Gerhard Avenue, has been charged with three counts of second-degree sexual misconduct by indecent exposure.
Gooch previously committed the same acts as one of the same girls walked by his house at 1 p.m. and again at 3 p.m. on Aug. 7, police stated in a news release.
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Gooch is being held on a $15,000 bond at the St. Louis County Justice Services Center.
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