Palm Bay police are searching for a man accused of recording children inside the women’s bathroom at a Walgreens.
Police hope surveillance video is enough to lead to an arrest.
The man was already in the restroom when the children, ages 9 and 5, walked inside.
Police said he was in the store for about an hour.
Before the children were allegedly recorded, an employee who was cleaning the restrooms stopped a customer near the women's restroom and directed him to the men's room.
It now appears it wasn't simple case of confusion.
The children said when they walked into the women's restroom at the Walgreens on Babcock Street on Saturday, the suspect was there too, recording them with what appeared to be an iPhone.
Police said the children immediately left the restroom and told their mother who contacted a Walgreens employee.
The man was confronted and told to leave the restroom. He quickly left the store, before police arrived.
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A Walgreens spokesperson said the company is fully cooperating with investigators.
“What's wrong with him to make him do something like that? I just don't know. There's something wrong in their head for wanting to do that,” said Brevard County resident Crystal McDonald.
Police don't know if the man was trying to shoot video of children, or adults.
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