Is this man committing a crime?

Question

I work at a facility in Virginia where many young children, mostly girls, take classes. It's in a small town where everybody pretty much knows everybody. Recently, there's been a man hanging around the building for hours at a time every night who's been giving everybody the creeps. Nobody recognizes him. He'll walk around the building a couple of times, then maybe look in the window. He repeats this over and over for maybe three to four hours until closing. One time he even knocked on the locked door after closing, trying to get someone to open up. The police has had to come at least twice because of him. He's a very shady character. He says he's waiting for a ride, but that really makes no sense. He won't go away and I'm wondering if this could be considered stalking, or any other crime. Also, what action can we take to make sure he goes away for good? We want a safe environment for our students, their parents, and ourselves. Please help!

Answer 1

This stalking, trespassing, voyeurism.
Take pictures of the man, document a 24 hour period, go to the police station file a statement and charge him with petty peeping if you have too.Just document it.
Another angle is to hire an off duty cop as security for a few nights.Make sure you document everything, and bug the cops to do something.

Answer 2

If this is some sort of school or facility for teaching of children, and he has no children attending the facility, and he isn't working there, then he has no business being there repeatedly. I've seen the police questioning men before at parks and such when they've been lurking and they had no business being around. If he comes in a car, get the licence plate number and also take his picture, tell him that you've called the police and that he has no reason to be there and he needs to leave. If its a small facility and you can control when the children are picked up, try to not let them outside until you know the parent is there waiting for them and make sure there are more teachers outside.

Answer 3

"Nearly 9 times as many men (5,037,000) as women (581,000) had ever at one time been incarcerated in a State or Federal prison at year end 2001." Yeah, that's because a jury and a judge are more likely to convict a guy than a woman, even though they have commited the same crime. Women get off on a lot of cases because they are women. If the guys were in court for the same crimes and the same evidence, they would be convicted. So I wouldn't agree that men commit more crimes than women, they just get convicted more for those crimes than women.

Answer 4

A official at this facility needs to file a complaint with the police for this man trespassing on the property, The police would then warn him, and if he comes back, he could be arrested.

For stalking, he has to be watching and following someone specific, not just hanging out around a building

Answer 5

Put up No Loitering signs, so if he comes back, the police can at least bust him for loitering (or trespassing?). In the interim, I'd try to make him know that he IS being noticed, by giving him as much attention as you can. Have all of the adults go outside one by one and say Hi to the guy. Go introduce yourself and start asking him polite 'nosy' questions. How are you? Where are you from? Can you help him with something? Is he aware he is trespassing? Would he mind if you took his picture? Don't leave the guy alone for 15 minutes. He's not going to want people paying attention to him.

Answer 6

That depends on if the property is privately owned then he could be trespassing or is loitering, The company can put a restraining order against the man. However, he does sounds like a character we don't want around like a pedophile or a sexual sadist hanging around the area. I agree this guy needs to be closely monitored.

Answer 7

Well, that actually would probably be considered loitering/tresspassing, you should pass a vote to install cameras or hire a guard at the school, this might spook him away. Also, see if he even lives in that town (because you described yuor town as being small) and maybe find out his name to check for a criminal record. Have the police question him, maybe

Answer 8

well many men live their lives with strange routines
i work at starbucks and theres a man who comes everyday and sits there for 4 hours and then on my break i see him on the other side of the mall for another 4 hours
he talks to other creeper guys and he once talked to me
he makes up a story about how hes 'in town' only on the weekends but i see him everyday

people fake lives and i really dont konw why
but i heard this guy made a sex tap wiht an under aged boy
maybe this guy is stalkign or something is wrong with him
does your facility have cameras to see what else he does? any specific person he stares at

Answer 9

He's loitering.
He's disturbing the peace.
If he is trying the doors and knocking on them he is trespassing.
Call the police every time he is there.
Tell him that he is trespassing and that he must leave. If he comes back after that, the police can arrest him for trespass.

Answer 10

WHY CAN'T THE POLICE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE SITUATION. LOOKING IN WINDOWS I CALL THAT A PEEPING TOM. I THINK THAT IS A CRIME.DID THE COPS FINE OUT WHY HE WAS KNOCKING ON THE DOOR? I BELIEVE THIS NEEDS TO BE HANDLE AS A SERIOUS PROBLEM BY THE POLICE DEPARTMENT.