Kansas City man arrested after ‘numerous’ sexual exposure complaints

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Police arrested a man in his seventies after a quick-thinking woman grabbed her camera to get picture proof of what her daughter and a friend experienced.

Vicente Heredia is charged with sexual misconduct involving a child under 15.

The woman, her 14-year-old daughter, and her daughter’s 13-year-old friend were sitting on a Kansas City, Mo., bench in April.

They later reported to police that a man exposed himself to the two teenagers as he sat nearby.

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According to a probable cause statement, the woman took a picture of what happened. She reported the incident to police and also gave detectives the pictures.

Officers used the pictures to identify the man as Heredia. The probable cause statement shows there have been “numerous reports with Kansas City Missouri Police Department where he was exposing his genitals.”

Heredia is scheduled to be in court on Wednesday.

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Court records show Heredia was previously convicted of first-degree sexual misconduct in Jackson County in 2017.

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