‘Peeping Tom’ Arrested After Filming 2-Year-Old In Bathroom

Authorities in Tennessee arrested a registered sex offender last week after he admitted to filming a mother and her 2-year-old daughter in a restaurant bathroom outside of Nashville.

James Josey III, 31, admitted to police that he entered a women’s restroom at a Whataburger in Hermitage, Tennessee, last month and filmed a woman and her child. The woman saw him filming in a gap in the bathroom stall and yelled at him, causing him to flee the restaurant.

An employee recognized him and identified him to police. Officials later released a statement explaining the incident:

Youth Services detectives today charged parolee and registered sex offender James B. Josey III, 31, with invasion of privacy/peeping tom for hiding in a stall of the women’s restroom at the Hermitage Whataburger restaurant and using his cell phone to video persons in the adjacent stall.

A woman who had taken her two-year-old child into the restroom on March 27 noticed a phone pressed against the open gap between the two stalls. The mother yelled at the individual, causing a man (Josey) to quickly flee from the stall and the restaurant. A Whataburger staff member followed Josey and recognized him as a former employee.

During an interview with Youth Services detectives today, Josey admitted to videoing in women’s restrooms for sexual gratification.

The charge against Josey is a felony. A judicial commissioner set his bond at $2,500.

Josey is a registered sex offender out of Knoxville, where he committed similar invasion of privacy offenses. The State of Tennessee is expected to file a parole violation warrant against Josey.

Police arrested another man last week for allegedly sexually assaulting an 11-year-old girl. Authorities say the man grabbed the girl’s buttocks in a Kroger in Hermitage. The suspect, 38-year-old Reuben Thornhill, claimed that he just bumped into the girl. The city of Nashville said in a press release:

Youth Services detectives this afternoon charged Reuben Thornhill, 38, with aggravated sexual battery for grabbing the buttocks of an 11-year-old girl inside the Hermitage Kroger on March 12. The victim stepped away from Thornhill who, she said, then offered her money. Thornhill fled, but was subsequently identified.

During an interview with Detectives Chris Beery and Melissa Flores, Thornhill claimed that he accidentally bumped into the girl. Store security video clearly shows to the contrary.

A judicial commissioner set Thornhill’s bond at $75,000.

At an unrelated incident in Virginia last month, a school board in Alexandria, Virginia, allegedly kept hidden from parents an assault that left one student hospitalized. As The Daily Wire reported:

According to a new report, the Alexandria, Virginia, school district and school board did not inform parents in the school district regarding a reported violent sexual assault that left the victim in the hospital.

“Alexandria police have now directly confirmed to Independent Women’s Forum via email that the police arrested a 14-year-old suspect in early December for ‘aggravated sexua[l] battery, rape, and forcible sodomy’ in connection with the October incident at Minnie Howard campus,” Inez Stepman of National Review reported on Friday, adding that a series of emails were sent vis-à-vis the incident between school-board members, the superintendent, the mayor, and Alexandria police. “Parents, however, were largely left in the dark,” National Review noted.

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