He was mowing the lawn of his home in Orlando, Florida, on Bass Lake Boulevard near Conway Elementary School, when the father noticed a bald patch below his daughters' bedroom window. His girls were eight and ten years old. He decided to stay up at night to find out why the grass was missing on the spot, according to clickorlando.com.

WKMG-TV said that the father of 8 and 10-year-old girls wanted to remain anonymous. He had a harrowing experience, when he saw a man standing on a cinder block and peeping through their window. He realized that the man was a habitual peeper, having created the bald spot. He chased the man, but the intruder was able to hop over to his neighbour's block and escape. The father has let out a warning to others in the neighbourhood.

The father put out the word to warn his community that someone was out there preying on the children in the neighborhood, which is very close to Conway elementary school. "It's very scary," Charlene Murray, a neighbour said. In a quiet neighbourhood in which he has been living for 25 years, he has never encountered problems.

The father boarded up the window, while his neighbour, Sasha Vuckovic, said she heard that another neighbor had shifted her girls to the living room after she heard what happened. Deputies found footprints, fingerprints and a napkin with DNA on the spot. Everyone in the neighbourhood hoped that the intruder would be caught and kept off the streets, according to theblaze.com. Vuckovic trimmed the shrubbery near her windows, so that no intruder could hide behind shrubs and peep in. Charlene installed a motion-activated light in his area to prevent future incidents that could be avoided.

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responses. One reactant said that a well-aimed shot would have solved the problem, while another suggested a bear trap. Most of the reactions were stronger. Said one respondent: "You all are so mean saying all this about how you would shoot this guy and kill him instantly and That's just wrong. What you should do is put a round in his belly and let him bleed out like the pig he is." For a while at least, though, the locals do not expect the man to be haunting the area.