(Stillwater, Okla.) — A Stillwater man has been given a five-year prison term with an order to register as a sex offender for exposing himself to an 8-year-old girl and a 15-year-old girl in separate incidents about six weeks apart last summer.
Craig Andrew Phillips, 27, was sentenced last week by District Judge Phillip Corley as part of a plea bargain in which his original charge of indecent proposals to the 8-year-old girl was reduced by the prosecution to indecent exposure.
Phillips pleaded guilty to two counts of indecent exposure, as well as entering with intent to steal copper and obstructing an officer in separate incidents last summer, for which he was given concurrent sentences.
Phillips, a twice-convicted drug offender, has been in the Payne County Jail since August. After he completes his prison term, Phillips will be on probation for two years, the judge ordered.
Payne County Sheriff’s Deputy Rockford Brown was sent to a rural Stillwater location shortly before 3 p.m. on Aug. 6, 2013, on a report of indecent proposal to a child, court records show.
When he arrived at 3:07 p.m., the deputy saw “several people signaling that the defendant was running through a pasture to the west,” Payne County Sheriff’s Investigator Larry Kitchel wrote in an affidavit.
“Deputy Brown deployed his K-9 (dog), Rudy, and began to pursue the defendant. After a short chase, Deputy Brown observed the defendant raise his hands to surrender, and Rudy was called off,” the affidavit said.
After arresting Phillips on an outstanding warrant, the deputy talked to a woman who said Phillips used to live in the area and had shown up in the neighborhood, the affidavit said.
The woman said that Phillips had taken a 6-year-old girl and an 8-year-old girl to a residence in the area, shown the girls pornography and tried to get the girls to perform oral sex on him, the affidavit said.
When the deputy returned to the Payne County Sheriff’s Office with Phillips, he asked him what was going on with the little girls, the affidavit said.
“Defendant went on to say that he has his needs and that he was watching porn (in the home where defendant did live before.) Defendant denied intentionally showing porn to the girls (and said) that the girls snuck up behind him while he was watching,” the affidavit said.
“Deputy Brown asked why the children would know he had a tattoo on his (defendant’s) penis, and defendant said he was masturbating in front of the computer, and the girls walked up behind him,” the affidavit said.
“Defendant went on to say everyone knows he has the tattoo, and the girls may have seen it while he was masturbating, but denied he ever did anything inappropriate with the girls,” the affidavit said.
Deputy Brown was told by the reporting party that “she took the defendant’s bag from him, and found a Barely Legal magazine and DVD,” which the deputy seized as evidence, the affidavit said.
When the girls were interviewed at the Saville Center in Stillwater, the 6-year-old girl made no disclosures, the affidavit said.
The 8-year-old girl said that while they were playing around the neighborhood, the defendant started following them around, the affidavit said.
Phillips asked them to go with him as he wanted to show them something, the affidavit said. One of the girls said that they went with him to the home “where they started watching the Disney Channel, and the defendant called them over to the computer,” the affidavit said.
The girl said that Phillips started showing them pornography, the affidavit said. She said “she knew this because it said porn on top of the picture — describing the porn as a boy and a girl kissing and other things with no clothes on,” the affidavit said.
The girl said that when they started to leave, Phillips grabbed their shirts, made them watch and said he wanted them to perform oral sex on him — which they did not, the affidavit alleged.
The girl said that Phillips told them not to say anything or he would kill the other girl, the affidavit alleged.
About six weeks earlier on June 26, Phillips exposed himself to a 15-year-old girl who was shopping with her mother in a Stillwater Walmart — which he admitted in court Friday.
On July 18, Phillips went onto property of Kinnunen Sales and Rental in Stillwater with the intent to steal copper wire and copper cable — which he admitted in court Friday.
Two air conditioning units were destroyed in the attempt, Stillwater Police Detective Mary Jurczewsky wrote in an affidavit. For that felony, which Phillips admitted in court Friday, Phillips was given a concurrent five-year prison term and an order to pay $2,874 restitution.
For obstructing Deputy Brown on Aug. 6 by fleeing from him, to which Phillips pleaded guilty Friday, he was given a concurrent one-year jail term.
Five years ago, Phillips was convicted of two drug charges in Stillwater and given two concurrent four-year probationary sentences for:
* possession of cocaine and marijuana with intent to distribute, escape, drug possession without a tax stamp and possession of drug paraphernalia, all in 2007;
* possession of marijuana as a second offense in 2008.
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