A 71-year-old man who has repeatedly been convicted of exposing himself is charged again, this time accused of committing a lewd act as he watched a girl at a St. Paul bookstore.

The St. Paul city attorney’s office charged Loren Clyde Bauer, of Minneapolis, last month with indecent exposure in a November incident at Half Price Books in Highland Park.

Bauer turned himself into the the Ramsey County jail Wednesday to be booked and was released. He’s due to make his first court appearance next week.

Bauer’s criminal record shows his history of indecent conduct cases — he was convicted of eight gross misdemeanors of the offense and three misdemeanors between 1987 and 2013 in Minnesota, plus convictions for violating similar statutes in Florida and Texas, according to criminal complaints.

He also has a pending case filed last month in Hennepin County, in which he is accused of indecent exposure at the Goodwill in Bloomington on Nov. 8.

On Nov. 24, a woman shopping at the Ford Parkway store spotted a man in the basement exposing his penis and was masturbating. She alerted an employee, who confronted the man. The man left.

Police reviewed a video of that stretch of time and it showed a girl, whom police said appeared to be 11 or 12, sitting in a chair reading. The man “appears focused on the girl and turns toward her when he is masturbating,” the complaint said. “He starts and stops several times as patrons happened to walk by.”

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St. Paul police sent a department-wide alert with the suspect’s photo from the video and an officer identified him as Bauer about a month later, the complaint said.

In 2011, Bauer was caught fondling himself in another St. Paul bookstore — the former Borders on University Avenue — after he followed a 16-year-old girl around. He pleaded guilty to indecent exposure.

Neither Bauer nor his attorney in the Bloomington case could be reached for comment Thursday.