Serial Lewd Exposures: Skokie Man Admits To Indecency, Police Say

SKOKIE, IL — A Skokie man faces a misdemeanor public indecency charge in connection with allegations that he exposed his genitalia to multiple women earlier this year, according to police.

Robert Dan, 27, of the 8500 block of Kimball Avenue, told police that the exposed himself and made lewd remarks to four women as they walked down the street around Skokie, according to police reports.

The first reported incident occurred July 21 in the 3300 block of Main Street, although Dan told detectives he had done it twice prior. Another took place on Long Avenue north of Oakton Street on the evening of July 27, police reported.

In the second incident, the woman told officers that she believed he had been sitting in the car waiting for her to pass.

"I was shocked," she reported. "I turned away and he drove away very fast."

Detectives identified Dan after looking up a partial license plate and finding that a car matching the description from a witness was registered to him at an address within a half-mile of the incident.

Although he was not identified by the victim in a photo lineup, he agreed to talk to police. During questioning, after initially claiming to have been changing clothes, he admitted to having exposed himself to the women, according to police.

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Dan told detectives he was inspired by watching pornography in which men who expose themselves to women on the street later have consensual sex as a result, which is a fantasy of Dan's, according to police.

Dan turned himself in Nov. 10 at the Skokie Police Department, was released on bond and is due back in court Dec. 10.