By Joel Julien joel.julien@trinidadexpress.com
"A SERIOUS threat to society."
This was how Magistrate Avason Quinlan yesterday described 28-year-old Steven Hudlin, who appeared in the Chaguanas Third Magistrates' Court charged with indecent exposure.
Over the past year officers of the Chaguanas Municipal Police Station have received reports about a man seated in a parked Toyota Corolla car who exposes his genitals and masturbates as he calls out to female pedestrians.The officers believe they made a breakthrough in the case on Saturday.
While on mobile patrol PCs Mc Allister, Rambahal, Langley and Baksh received a call that the flasher was parked near the Port of Spain taxi stand located on the Old Southern Main Road in Chaguanas.
Around 6 p.m. the officers found Toyota Corolla PBZ 100 parked with its front driver's side door open. The driver's legs were outside the vehicle, his pants were down and he was masturbating, the court heard yesterday.
Hudlin yesterday appeared before Quinlan and admitted that he has been exposing himself for "a while now" and that "something takes him over when he sees women".
Quinlan warned Hudlin that the "something" he spoke about may one day lead him to rape and described him as "a serious threat to society".
Hudlin was unrepresented when he appeared before Quinlan yesterday.
He is a hardware employee who lives by himself at Chin Chin Road in Cunupia. Hudlin is not known to the police.
Quinlan has ordered Hudlin to undergo mental evaluation at the St Ann's Psychiatric Hospital.
Hudlin is scheduled to reappear at the Chaguanas Magistrates' Court on March 27.
