A serial child abuser from New York, with charges stemming back to 1986, has allegedly exposed himself to children on at least three occasions in the past month.
Paul Goodrell, 54, has been arrested and released back into the public at least eight times after flashing himself to children as young as seven years old, sometimes while touching himself, stalking kids, and more. In just this past month, Goodrell allegedly exposed himself to children on at least three occasions, and police suspect that there are more victims, based on video surveillance footage.
On December 8, Goodrell allegedly exposed himself to a seven-year-old girl inside a Canandaigua grocery store and attempted to lure the child away from her guardians. After he was arrested by officers the following day, Goodrell intentionally damaged his parole-issued ankle monitoring bracelet on his way to the police station. Days later, he was released from the Ontario County Jail.
The sex offender was hit with more charges last week, stemming from an incident where Goodrell allegedly exposed himself to a child under 12 years old at another grocery store on December 6, and then allegedly exposed himself to a seven-year-old boy a week later.
Goodrell’s alleged sexual crimes are so commonplace that police reportedly referred to him as “No Pants Paul.”
Goodrell has a history of breaking into schools to flash himself to children. In 2006, he exposed himself to a group of girls at Newark Middle School. He also hit up a school in Auburn back in 2010. Additionally, Goodrell allegedly exposed himself to girls walking to school in the town of Irondequoit, did the same to girls waiting for their school bus in another Rochester town, and exposed himself in parking lots at SUNY Brockport and Geneseo colleges, Monroe Community College, and a dozen other locations.
In one recent example, two 11-year-old siblings say Goodrell stalked them in Michael’s craft store on January 22 and followed them around the store when they tried to get away. Goodrell was also touching himself, the children say.
“We tried acting like we didn’t see him,” one of the siblings said. “We walked away and he kept following us.”
After a judge sentenced Goodrell to 12 years in state prison for some of his sexual crimes against minors in 2012, an appellate court halved the sentence, deeming it “unduly harsh.”
Notably, when Goodrell left the courthouse, he said “no thanks” when asked by the media if he’d like to say anything to his victims and their families. He then faced the cameras and said, “It’s only a penis, for f*** sake.”
Former Ontario County Sheriff Kevin Henderson suggested Goodrell’s re-arrest back in 2021 was predictable.
“The New York State Division of Parole felt that he was able to be released back into society and again, based on the history of this individual, he is right back out in victimizing more people,” Henderson said.
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