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| Anthony Hardison |
A man masturbated while awaiting his turn to register as a sex offender at a Seattle sheriff’s office .
The news was first reported on Seattle Post-Intelligencer website on Monday;
The incident occurred Aug. 12, a week after Anthony Hardison was sentenced on two counts of indecent exposure with sexual motivation for showing his genitals to bus drivers.
Hardison went to the office in the King County Administration Building on Fourth Avenue that morning to turn in some documents and he "intentionally mak(ing) an open and obscene exposure of his penis," The employee said she was “shocked, angered and disgusted.”
A King County Sheriff’s Office employee allegedly saw Anthony Hardison in the act, a week after he was sentenced and released for time served for exposing himself to female bus drivers, the P-I wrote.
Hardison was charged earlier this month with felony indecent exposure for the county office incident, which was captured on video surveillance, the Seattle Times noted. He was at the office to submit his registered sex offender paperwork.
“Mr. Hardison presents a pattern of publicly exposing himself and masturbating to adult women in positions of authority,” a detective wrote after Hardison’s most recent arrest, per the Times.
According to the outlet, Hardison in February openly pleasured himself in the back row of two public buses ― easily seen by the female drivers in the rear view mirror.
King County jail records indicate that Hardison remained behind bars as of Wednesday morning.