A Jacksonville man was sentenced July 8 to 30 years in prison after he was found guilty of exposing himself and trying to kidnap a girl from an Ollie’s Bargain Outlet in Daytona Beach.
Timmothy Isaiah Hall, 56, was convicted of one count of attempted kidnapping of a minor less than 13/lewd/lascivious assault/act and one count of lewd lascivious exhibition by a person 18 or older against a victim less than 16.
Hall is a registered sex offender.
Circuit Judge Kathryn Weston presided over the trial at the S. James Foxman Justice Center in Daytona Beach. She noted that Hall had been released from prison less than a year ago on a similar charge before his arrest in this case.
“I don’t think you learned anything from your prior sentence,” Weston said.
Hall was sentenced March 21, 2012, to 15 years in prison in Hillsborough County for lewd and lascivious exhibition on a victim less than 16 by someone 18 or over. He was released from state prison Oct. 10, 2024.
Because of his previous sentence, Hall was classified as a “prison releasee reoffender,” meaning he faced a mandatory 15 years in prison on each charge he faced July 8. The only question was whether his sentences would be concurrent or consecutive.
Weston sentenced him to consecutive sentences and also declared Hall a sexual predator.
After the alternates were dismissed, the jury of three women and three men started deliberating about 11:35 a.m. on July 8 before reaching a verdict at about 2:15 p.m.
8-year-old girl testifies about attempted kidnapping at Daytona Beach store
Hall approached the girl on July 11, 2025, at the Ollie’s at 2455 W. International Speedway Blvd., according to police and prosecutors.
The girl was 7 at the time but is now 8. She took the stand and testified against Hall, saying she and her little brother were playing hide-and-seek while their parents were shopping. She said as her brother hid among some boxes, Hall approached her twirling his genitals.
She said the man then motioned at her with his other hand to come toward him. As he did, he moved closer to her. She screamed.
He jogged out of the store. The girl’s mother ran over to see what was wrong.
A security camera recorded the man getting into a Toyota sedan and driving off. Daytona Beach Police detectives reviewed traffic cameras and spotted the car; they learned it was registered to Hall’s mother in Jacksonville.
They brought him in for questioning and a detective testified that Hall admitted to exposing himself to the girl at Ollie’s.
Jacksonville sex offender’s phone had disturbing video
Police also found a video on Hall’s cellphone. In it, a man is recording a young girl through a large window or glass wall. The girl appears to be studying or perhaps coloring inside a smaller room, but is visible through the glass.
She is not the same girl Hall exposed himself to at Ollie’s.
The video shows the camera phone pointed down as the man holding it apparently masturbates. Those scenes alternate with the phone focused on the young elementary-school age girl who is absorbed in what she is doing and unaware of the man recording her.
The security video from Ollie’s does not show the man exposing himself to the girl. But it does show the man walking around in the store and looking down aisles.
Prosecutor: Man decided to prey on little girl in Daytona Beach store
Assistant State Attorney Kevin Betancourt, who prosecuted the case along with Assistant State Attorney Paiton Mizelle, showed the security video to the jury again during his closing argument
Betancourt stopped the video at a point where the man appears to be reaching toward his groin. Betancourt told jurors that’s when Hall exposed himself to the girl.
Betancourt told jurors that the girl was so young and innocent that she could not have made up what happened. The girl didn’t even know the words for a man’s genitals.
He said Hall’s actions were burned into her memory for life.
Betancourt praised the girl for defending herself by screaming. He said had she stayed quiet, who knows what might have happened.
“He went to grab a 7-year-old child that he was able to identify that had been left out of sight of her parents,” Betancourt said.
Defense attorney: Child misconstrued, man was just ‘adjusting’ himself
Seventh Circuit Public Defender Matt Metz and Assistant Public Defender Jason Blizzard represented Hall.
In his closing argument, Blizzard said that the girl did not identify Hall as the man who approached her at Ollie’s. He said prosecutors didn’t even ask her to try to identify him.
Blizzard said the photo identification of Hall was made by a man at the trial.
Blizzard also questioned why prosecutors did not show the video of Hall allegedly admitting to exposing himself while he was questioned by police.
He also asked why traffic camera videos of the car which was traced back to Hall’s mother were not collected by police.
Blizzard also said that the girl could have misjudged what was going on. He said the man could have been simply “adjusting” himself, much like a baseball pitcher adjusts himself.
Blizzard asked jurors to consider whether the allegation that Hall allegedly reached out for the girl is enough to support a claim of attempted kidnapping.
Betancourt returned for the second-part of his closing argument.
He said a man spinning his genitals didn’t sound like any adjustment he had ever heard of.
— Frank Fernandez covers courts and criminal justice in Volusia and Flagler counties for The Daytona Beach News-Journal.
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