Monroe man arrested on indecent exposure charge

MONROE, N.C. — A Monroe mother said she is outraged after her neighbor fondled himself in front of her young daughters.

Sue Sprouse said it happened as her children and other kids played in their back yard Thursday night. She said it's the second time she's had to call police this week.

"My kids came in running up there and telling me there was a naked guy outside," she said.

Sprouse said she walked up a hill and saw Agusto Gonzalez passed out and exposed. Her two daughters said he'd been fondling himself in front of them.

"I was very angry," Sprouse said.

Sprouse said she recognized him as the same man that her kids found in the back yard Tuesday.

"They were like, 'Mommy there's a guy dead', so I thought to help him and then I saw his pants down and said I'm not helping," said Sprouse.

She said she called the police after each incident.

"I think he had a little too much to drink, because he was passed out," said Lt. T.J. Goforth of the Monroe Police Department.

Police arrested Gonzalez Thursday, charging him with indecent exposure.

Eyewitness News went to his house, which was just yards away from Sprouse's. A woman with two kids answered the door. She said Gonzalez had moved out days ago.

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