By VALERIE KALFRIN
The Tampa Tribune

TAMPA - Police conducting routine checks on registered sex offenders Sunday found a 52-year-old man naked with a 15-year-old girl in his bedroom, a preliminary police report states.

Raymond Gomez answered the door of his mobile home at 4803 E. Hillsborough Ave. naked about 6:30 p.m. Sunday when two Tampa police officers dropped by unexpectedly to check his address was current, the report states.

Gomez was convicted in 2003 of lewd and lascivious molestation on a victim under 16, state records show. He is a registered sex offender on community supervision until 2018.

Because the conditions of his supervision allow police to search his residence at any time, the officers entered the mobile home and found a 15-year-old girl in Gomez’s bedroom, police said.

The girl told police she and Gomez had met online about seven months ago and had had sex about 20 times, police said.

The girl lives in Bartow, police spokeswoman Andrea Davis said. She did not know where online the two had met or how the girl had traveled to Tampa.

Gomez is being held on $7,500 bail at the Orient Road Jail today, charged with felony lewd or lascivious battery on a victim under 16, records show. He also is in violation of his probation.

Davis said Tampa police check the accuracy of sex offenders’ addresses once a month. “It’s a good thing we do, because look what we found,” she said.

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