Sex Offender Caught Lurking Outside 8-Year-Old Girl's Bedroom Window With 'Rape Kit'

A sex offender has allegedly been caught lurking outside an eight-year-old girl's bedroom, reportedly carrying a rape kit containing balaclava, tape and plastic ties.

Videos retrieved from the man's mobile phone showed he had been in the girl's room multiple times to sexually assault her, said a report by NT Independent.

The arrest was made on Feb. 26 but the details of the incident that occurred in Northern Territory (NT), Australia, were revealed to the public only now.

The report said the girl had informed her parents that a man wearing a mask had been in her room after the first night it occurred. Her parents searched the house and bedroom but found nothing out of ordinary.

A few days later, the girl told her parents again that a man had been in her bedroom the night before. This time, the parents called the police. However, a police search of the premises found no signs of forced entry and nothing in the house out of place.

The third time the girl complained about the man in her room, her mother put her and her siblings together for the night. During a routine check, the mother saw the man outside her window.

She called the police immediately but the man managed to flee. However, the officers apprehended him shortly. He had carried the 'rape kit' with him.

After he was detained, the investigators searched his phone and were shocked to find videos from inside the girl's bedroom. While one video showed him hiding behind the bedroom door when the child’s father opened it to check on her, another had him touching her.

Investigators told 7News that the man is a previously convicted child sex offender from Queensland. He has been charged with seven separate offenses, including attempted unlawful entry and possessing or controlling child abuse material.

He is due in court next month on April 28.

The incident has also raised questions as to why the arrest was not made public despite it happening three weeks ago. "This is horror movie stuff. It most definitely should have been reported in a press release," an unnamed source told NT Independent.

The NT Police’s transparency guidelines state information on specific cases, including “timely, significant events of likely public interest” and “serious incidents such as … serious assault” and matters of “public safety” and “significant arrests” should be “considered” for public disclosure, the report adds.