Man Faces Charges For Nudity, In His Own Home

SPRINGFIELD, VA (WUSA) -- Eric Williamson says he wishes he put the blinds down before walking around his house naked.

He's now moved out of the house along Arley Drive. He talked with 9NEWS NOW over the phone about what happened Monday, when he was living here.

"I was in my own home, cooking breakfast, making coffee, packing a box," he said.

He says he was moving out. And because no one was home-- he was doing it naked.

"Apparently some lady had walked across a portion of my lawn, because there's a trail off to the side a ways and its common for people to cut across that area to the sidewalk in front of my house," he said.

That lady was with her 7-year-old son on the way to the bus stop. She called police. But-- is it a crime to be naked in your own home?

Mary Ann Jennings with Fairfax County Police says it's not that Eric was naked. He's in trouble because they say he was flaunting it.

"He wasn't merely moving around the house. He was actually standing in an open doorway and standing in front of a pretty large window when she observed him naked," she said.

Jennings says police even went to a judge with the allegations first. That judge issued the warrant.

"The statute is very clear that there has to be an intention there," she said.

Police say Eric showed his goods intentionally. But Eric disagrees.

"I mean-I could have been Riverdancing. I'm in my home naked. I can't understand a law that breaks," he said.