Judge orders man to wear tight-fitting underwear

61-year-old Niagara Falls resident receives six-month conditional sentence for exposing himself to teens

A Niagara Falls man who exposed himself to a group of teenaged girls on Clifton Hill has been ordered to wear “tight-fitting underwear and long pants” when outside his home for the next three years.

“Do you really think teenage girls want to look at a 60-yearold penis and testicles?” Judge Harvey Brownstone asked Joseph Beesley after he pleaded guilty Thursday in Ontario Court of Justice in St. Catharines to a charge of committing an indecent act.

“Do you think any woman wants to look at your genitals? I don’t know how you can stand to look at them.”

The 61-year-old man received a six-month conditional sentence, also known as house arrest, followed by probation for three years.

Under provisions of the probation order, he must “wear tight-fitting underwear and long pants” whenever he is in public.

“Your days of wearing shorts and bathing suits are over,” the judge warned.

“And, no loose boxing shorts. I don’t care if you have a hot flash, I don’t care if we’re in the middle of a heat wave.”

Defence counsel Scott Buchanan suggested his client acted out in order to “get attention.”

The judge replied the only attention the man received was from police and “from people mortified looking at your shortcomings.”

Court heard four teenagers were sitting a table at a fastfood restaurant in August 2019 when Beesley approached and sat nearby. He later stood up and walked toward the girls with his genitals exposed, said assistant Crown attorney Graeme Leach.

He said the girls “were disturbed by the entire incident.”

The judge warned the offender if he is convicted of a similar offence in the future, he runs the risk of being sent to jail “long enough to collect old-age insurance.”

“I’m not asking the world. I’m just asking you to keep your pants on. It’s what most of us do all the time.”

He also told the defendant he should consider himself lucky his actions that day didn’t turn violent.

“You’re lucky those girls went to the police. I’ve had cases where girls go to their parents first and their fathers come along with a baseball bat and it’s not good. Sometimes, people take matters into their own hands.”

In addition to the undergarment requirements, the defendant was banned from restaurants, cafés, coffee shops and food courts, unless he is accompanied by another adult.

Court heard the defendant has a previous conviction for a similar offence stemming from a series of incidents which occurred at a Burlington mall in 2014.