Man
Masturbates In Court
A
Brooklyn man unhappy with the sentence he received for masturbating
in public, repeated the crime before the assistant municipal
court clerk on closed circuit TV last week, police said.
Reggie
Frank, 34, had just been sentenced over closed circuit television
on April 4 to six months in the Middlesex County Detention Center
for masturbating in the women’s lingerie section of the Lord
& Taylor at Woodbridge Center Mall, when he decided to begin
doing what landed him in jail in the first place, police said.
“The
way the system works with closed circuit TV is they can see
and talk to him up here at Woodbridge,” Capt. Charles Rowinski
said. “If they plead guilty, the judge can sentence him. If
they plead not guilty, they have to come before the judge in
person.”
The
court clerk alleged Frank had been acting agitated and was using
profanity during the process, according to the police report.
“The judge sentenced him to six months and apparently the defendant
thought it should be less,” Rowinski said. After sentencing,
Frank reappeared on camera while exposing his genitals and masturbating,
police said.