A homeless man who masturbated in front of a 14-year-old girl who was on her way to school in Watford was jailed for 12 months on Friday, July 12.
The schoolgirl was sitting at the back of the bus on March 18 when Scott Bailey, 45, tried to talk to her before performing the indecent act.
The teenager pushed the stop button, left the bus in Watford High Street and phoned the police, Luton Crown Court was told.
The police arrived and Bailey was arrested. He later told officers he had been drinking and smoking cannabis and could not remember what happened.
Mr King said that just over a month earlier, on February 5, Bailey had been given a community order for four similar offences at Croydon Crown Court.
He stood outside a woman’s house and touched his genitals, masturbated by a woman’s window as she got ready for bed, and exposed himself to a female jogger.
On the fourth occasion, he was seen crouching with his trousers down by a woman who had just left her bathroom. When she asked him what he was doing, he said he was “just being a perv”, said Mr King.
Bailey, of no fixed address, appeared for sentence having admitted exposure and criminal damage. He admitted being in breach of the community order. He had 34 previous convictions for 57 offences. The court heard he had mental health difficulties.
Recorder Lee Harris told him: “This was disgusting behaviour and no one should be subjected to it, let alone a 14-year-old schoolgirl travelling to school.”
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