George D. Leone sits in the Brevard County Jail on a quarter-million dollar bond.

A local man has been arrested for inappropriately touching a five year-old girl in a West Melbourne movie theatre. George D. Leone, 65, was booked into the Brevard County Jail on July 10, charged with a single count of Lewd and Lascivious Molestation on a Child Under 12.

Police said the girl told her mother that Leone rubbed the her genitals outside her clothing as she sat on his lap during the movie. The incident occurred on June 24th according to the arrest report issued by West Melbourne Police.

Leone was a friend of the child’s family and had frequent access to her. In a phone call with the child’s mother, secretly recorded by investigators, Leone admitted he was rubbing the child’s leg and may have inadvertently touched her panties. The child was also interviewed by investigators with the Department of Children and Families and demonstrated how she was touched by Leone. A video of the child’s interview and the recording of the telephone conversation between Leone and her mother, are included in the evidence against him.

Leone, who lists his address as 956 Burn Drive NE, Palm Bay, remains in jail on a $250,000 dollar bond. The charge against him carries a possible sentence of 25 years to Life. He is scheduled for an arraignment in Viera before Judge David C Koenig on August 8th.