Lavern Scott, 65, was arrested on Friday, April 24, and charged with attempted class two felony, burglary, and failure to register as a sex offender.
Officers with the Omaha Police Department said they were called to an apartment for reports of a burglary and child abuse around 1 a.m. Residents said a man entered through the front door, which was unlocked, took his clothes off, and got into a sleeping child’s bed.
The child, police said, woke up and screamed for a family member. The man, who was later identified as Scott, then allegedly pinned him down. He was “escorted” out of the home by a family member.
Police said they received another call from an Airbnb, the residents reporting that he went inside and claimed it was his home.
Read MoreScott was first put on the sex offender registry in 1987 for first-degree sexual assault. He was listed under the aliases “Cookie Monster” and “Cookie X” on the Nebraska Sex Offender Registry.
In those almost 40 years, he was convicted of attempted first-degree sexual assault and violating the sex offender registry in 2017, 2018, 2022 and 2024.
Sex offender of almost 40 years arrested after allegedly being found naked in sleeping child’s bed, police say
A convicted sex offender known as "Cookie Monster" allegedly broke into a home and entered a sleeping child's room naked.
