HOUSTON – A convicted sex offender has been accused of snapping pictures of young children inside a Walmart store in Katy.
The girls, ages 2 and 3, went shopping with their mother and an aunt at the Walmart on Fry Road near the Katy Freeway.
When the girl's aunt saw a man snap a photo of them on his cell phone and walk away, she went after him, she said.
"When I finally catch up to him, I asked him, 'Did you just take a picture of my nieces?' Very calmly he says, 'They're very cute.' I said, 'You don't do that. That's not right.' He says, 'I'm sorry your brain is so damaged you think that's not right,'" said Alexandra Hernandez.
Hernandez called the Harris County Sheriff's Office, but was told no crime had been committed. The girl's mother made a second call. While a deputy was dispatched, they watched the suspect.
When the deputy arrived, the women insisted that a background check be run on the man.
The deputy discovered the man with the camera was Mark Yorloff, a registered sex offender.
According to the Texas Sex Offender Registry, Yorloff was convicted in California in 1993 of lewd acts with 14- and a 16-year-old girls.
Yorloff was arrested. He has been charged with improper photography and is being held without bond.