Centre County man with long history of exposing himself back in jail
A Centre County man with a long history of exposing his genitals in public was sent back to jail Tuesday after two women said they spotted him naked near a park.
Kelvin J. Flory, 63, was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor counts of indecent exposure and open lewdness, as well a summary citation for disorderly conduct. He’s been convicted of similar charges more than a dozen times dating back to 1994.
He was sentenced Jan. 13 on his most recent conviction and was ordered to spend about another 2 1/2 months at minimum in the Centre County Correctional Facility. His maximum jail sentence was 23 1/2 months.
Flory seemingly served the minimum before he was released on parole. The jail said Tuesday he was released March 31.
Two women said they were walking May 8 near the Port Matilda Community Park when they saw Flory with his genitals exposed on a walking path, state police at Rockview wrote in an affidavit of probable cause.
A trooper interviewed Flory at his nearby apartment and he said he stopped to urinate while walking his dog, police wrote. He then said his shorts fell over his ankles and he did not pull them up, police wrote.
Flory said his genitals were exposed about 10 minutes before the women saw him, police wrote. No defense lawyer was listed. He was arraigned by District Judge Kelley Gillette-Walker, who set bail at $5,000. Flory is incarcerated at the county jail.
His preliminary hearing is scheduled for May 21.
During his most recent sentencing, Centre County Judge Katie Oliver said she considered a maximum sentence for Flory — one to two years in state prison — but “talked myself out of it.”
She said the circumstances of the crime — he was caught on camera standing almost completely nude in the backyard of a Port Matilda home eight days after being released from state prison — didn’t warrant such a sentence.
“I wish I had some magic answer to what might help Mr. Flory to not engage in this kind of conduct again,” Oliver said in January. “Looking at a new offense for similar conduct just eight days after having been released from a lengthy prison sentence, I don’t know what that would be.”
Flory apologized before he was sentenced, telling the judge he didn’t want to “cause a scare” and was apologetic for “the way anybody saw me.”