Caught on camera: Chilling video shows paedophile following small children round store as he tries to lure them away from their parents

A man with a camera phone has been arrested after allegedly following children around department stores while touching himself and whispering for their attention.



Less than two months after Jonathan Davis was arrested for allegedly performing a sex act on himself in front of a young girl in a K-Mart in Hialeah, Florida, he has been arrested again for aggravated stalking of a minor.



Davis, 40, who is currently free on bail, was arrested on Friday after a security guard at a Burlington Coat Factory noticed him following three girls through the store.

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Arrested: Jonathan Davis is accused of following young girls around a store trying to get their attention

Allegations: Davis was accused of lewd behaviour just two months before his latest arrest

Holding his cell phone against his ear, with the bright camera light exposed - a sign that he was filming, according to police - Davis allegedly wandered the store for young children before hiding behind aisles and making sounds to capture their attention.



In some cases Davis would allegedly call the children by making a 'psssst' or 'ouch' sound.

Other times he asked them where the toy department was and for help finding a toy for his niece.



Police do not believe any children left with Davis, but say that the investigation is ongoing.

'This is a guy who is brazen,' detective Felix Mendigutia told CBS Miami. 'He's fearless. He's not afraid to get caught.'



Detective Mendigutia said he saw in some surveillance video Davis just inches from children who were standing with their parents.



'In some cases I could actually see that a parent was holding a child by the hand,' Detective Mendigutia said. 'In some cases the parent was five feet from their child.'



Audio obtained from Davis' cell phone describes his attempts for their distraction which in some cases, escalated.



'You can't see what I'm hiding,' Davis whispers in one recording to a child in a playful voice.

In another he tells a little girl: 'You can't have a butt that nice when you're eight.'

Police say when the children's attention was captured, they would see him behind an aisle performing a sex act on himself.



Gotcha: Davis is seen after successfully catching the attention of a little girl, her white arm seen centre

Over 80 videos were found on Davis' phone approaching young children, police said.



'You can see in the children's eyes when they would first look up at him and then they would look down in the area in the lower part of his body,' Detective Mendigutia said.



For the detective, what makes it all more worrisome is Davis' release on $50,000 bail shortly after his arrest on Friday evening.



'I don't feel comfortable with the fact that he's out on bond and I'm very concerned for the children in our society,' he said.



Candid camera: Using his cell phone, seen held to his cheek with its camera's light on, he allegedly recorded the children he came in contact with to the attention of a store security officer Hide and seek: Davis is accused of hiding behind store isles when near a child and making sounds to get their attention away from their parents before touching himself

Adding to his recent charges of stalking and lewd and lascivious behaviour, in 2007 Davis faced three counts of indecent exposure in North Carolina he pleaded no contest to.



In those charges he allegedly exposed himself to several people in a park, including a 15-year-old.



He was sentenced to two years of supervised probation, according to Iredell county documents, as well as ordered to stay out of parks and playgrounds.



Following his cell phone's confiscation by a police officer, police say Davis wrote the responding officer an email apologising for his behaviour.



'He acknowledges that he has an issue and that he's gonna do something about it,' said Detective Mendigutia. 'He's gonna get help for it.'



Days later, however, police obtained a search warrant for his phone discovering his building video history.



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