The Florida Ormond Beach coastal community was left in a state of disbelief and astonishment on Saturday night when a woman with seemingly no regard for the local community — and apparently very little shame — openly masturbated in full view of passers by, including one stunned witness and a 13-year-old boy.
The woman in question, 50-year-old Karen Marie Dilworth, was arrested by local police shortly after the incident.
She was formally charged with performing a lewd and lascivious exhibition by a person over 18 on a person under the age of 16 following the incident in her open garage on Pine Cone Trail, according to the police report obtained by the Daytona Beach News-Journal .
Apparently, the boy and his mother arrived at the residence on Pine Cone Trail and spotted Dilworth masturbating. Dilworth was seen inside her open garage, naked from the waist down, lying on top of a motor bike pleasuring herself while facing the street and seemingly oblivious to the bemused onlookers.
According to the Daytona News-Journal , the arrest occurred when the shocked mother of the boy and fellow neighbors shouted at Dilworth to close her garage door. Eventually they called the police when she refused to stop. Karen Dilworth has denied that she committed a sex act on a motorcycle.
The police report shows that she told Ormond Beach officers that she was in her garage smoking cigarettes and drinking beers.
Should Dilworth be convicted of lewd and lascivious exhibition, not only would she be placed on sex offender probation, but would also be declared a sexual offender and could even face up to 15 years behind bars or a $10,000 fine. As a result, she would be required to comply with sexual offender registration laws in Florida and throughout the United States for the remainder of her life.
Dilworth was taken to the Volusia County Branch Jail and was released after she posted $1,000 bail. When reached by phone Monday, she declined to comment on the case.