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A local resident is accused of committing indecent acts from a front porch as a school bus full of children passed through the neighborhood.
“Several people had passed through that street at the time, and [according to witness accounts] this guy was outside naked pleasuring himself,” Cherokee County sheriff’s Chief Deputy Joe Wood said.
Bret Allen Parrish, 38, is charged with 15 counts of indecent exposure and 14 counts of indecent liberties with a child. Officials say the bus traveled through a residential street around 7:20 a.m. Friday, when the driver noticed Parrish and contacted authorities.
A witness who passed through the neighborhood around the same time as the bus recorded a video, which was sent to the Cherokee Scout by a local citizen. The video shows a man sitting in a folding chair on a porch doing exactly what witnesses described to police. The man is naked from the waist down, and the home’s front door is wide open.
“I do not believe that this was just happenstance,” Detective Roger Williams said when asked if police believe Parrish knew the school bus was coming around that time.
A magistrate judge set a secured bond at $100,000. Parrish is scheduled to appear in court Thursday, according to online records.