The young father of a toddler has been charged for allegedly masturbating while hanging around the entrance of a birthing unit at an Oshawa hospital last week.

Durham Regional Police officers were called to Oshawa’s Lakeridge Health hospital on Dec. 22 after a nurse spotted a “suspicious male” outside a birthing unit.

Hospital security had been called about the incident, but the man left before guards had a chance to apprehend him. Police said later that security video revealed that a man had been masturbating “near the front doors” of the unit.

Police arrested Stephen Kirk, 23, of Oshawa on Christmas Day, Det. Denise Wilson said Tuesday.

He has been charged with committing an indecent act and failing to comply with recognizance.

Wilson also confirmed Kirk was charged in July for allegedly exposing himself to a woman inside a Shoppers Drug Mart at the Oshawa Centre mall.

On Tuesday, a woman identifying herself as the grandmother of a former girlfriend of Kirk’s confirmed that the two had a daughter together in the spring of 2014, but that her granddaughter and Kirk haven’t been together for “over a year” now.

“She has (had) absolutely nothing to do with that man ... for over a year,” said the grandmother, who didn’t want to be identified.

She said the child turns two in May and that police paid a visit to the toddler’s mother in Oshawa around the time of Kirk’s arrest.

terry.davidson@sunmedia.ca