Paul Hicks Stalks Children
February 8, 2009 by Morbid
CHERRYVILLE, N.C. - Here’s one for all you parents…a little story to freak you out bit the next time you at your local Wal-Mart. A mother and her 8-year-old aughter had just gotten in the car after a shopping trip at a Cherryville Wal-Mart when the little girl bursts into tears. She informed her mother that while they were in the store, a man had been jacking off in front of her. The man turned out to be a registered sex offender by the name of Paul Hicks, 47, who had already served 6 years after being convicted on three counts of indecent liberties with a child in 2001.
In-store surveillance cameras revealed Hicks had stalked the girl throughout the store for 25 of the 45 minutes the girl was in the store with her mother. He tried to call the 8-year-old over to him, but she would not go, so Hicks resorted to fondling himself so that she could see him. He ran off when he incorrectly thought the girl’s mother had seen him. However, he remained in the store another 30 minutes after the pair left, following other children around the store.
Using the surveillance video and receipts from a credit card purchase, police were able to arrest Hicks at his home and charge him with one felony count of indecent liberties with a minor and one felony count of a violation of sex offender unlawfully on premises. On Friday, his bond was increased from $250,000 to $750,000 secured (yay judge). Police fear that there are more victims out there and have already seized computer equipment from his home. It’s probably not gonna help Hicks much that the 8-year-old girl he decided to wave his dick at happens to be related to an administrator in the Gaston County Sheriff’s Office.
Call Cherryville Police at 704-435-1717 if you have any other information.





















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