Indecent Exposure By Sex Offender Reported At W-L High School: Police

ARLINGTON, VA — A 58-year-old sex offender who identifies as transgender was accused of indecent exposure in the girls locker room at Washington-Liberty High School on Oct. 21, according to news reports.

A victim told Arlington County Police that when she entered a locker room at the school on Oct. 21, 2024, she saw Richard Kenneth Cox displaying his genitals in a public place, according to WJLA 7News. The locker room was adjacent to the school’s swimming pool, which is open to the public.

Cox has been convicted eight times in Arlington and Fairfax County since 1992 on charges ranging from possessing child pornography to taking indecent liberties with children, according to the Virginia State Police’s sex offender registry. The most recent conviction occurred in April 2021 on a failing to register as a sex offender charge.

“I am aware that I suffer compulsions to expose myself in public places,” Cox wrote in a letter to a judge in 1995, according to WJLA's reporting. He also said that he sought have himself castrated but chose not to follow through with the surgery.

On Dec. 20, 2024, ACPD arrested Cox for the Oct. 21, 2024 incident at Washington-Liberty. Cox was charged with indecent exposure, as well as being in and loitering near school property after being convicted as a sex offender, according to court documents. Cox has a March 3 hearing set in Arlington General District Court to face those charges.

Since Oct. 21, Cox racked up 13 additional charges for seven similar incidents that occurred between Oct. 25 and Dec. 2, 2024, according to court documents. His preliminary hearing on these charges is also on March 3, but in Arlington Juvenile & Domestic Relations Court.

Read WJLA 7News' full report.