A Michigan home inspector has been arrested after he was filmed “pleasuring himself” with an Elmo doll in a client’s home, police say.
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Kevin Wayne VanLuven, 59, was charged on Wednesday, April 7, with aggravated indecent exposure and malicious destruction of property.
The alleged incident occurred on March 12, when a couple who were selling their Oxford Township home agreed to an inspection, allowing VanLuven and the potential buyer’s real estate agent in.
After leaving the house to allow the inspection to take place, a camera set up in the nursery alerted the 22-year-old female homeowner to movement in the nursery.
Watching the footage, she allegedly saw VanLuven touching himself, and immediately began recording him.
According to Oakland County Sheriff’s Office, he then picked up an Elmo doll from the nursery and “appeared to be pleasuring himself with the doll”; He then returned the doll to its original location.
Police were called to the home. During questioning, VanLuven insisted he had just moved the doll to inspect an electrical outlet, and did nothing else.
However, when he was told there was a camera in the nursery, he allegedly “made incriminating statements and apologised.”
He is set to appear in court on April 19.
If convicted of aggravated indecent exposure, he could face a maximum of two years in prison and a $2,000 fine; the property charge carries up to a 93-day jail sentence and $500 fine.
