Lenzo Grooms, 63, reportedly operated a photography business, "Have Brush Will Travel," via which he offered to take photographs of neighborhood female children for $20, according to a Clarksville Police news release. Between October 2012 and January 2013, a trusted family friend brought a nine-year-old girl to Groom's residence to have her picture taken.
Authorities said Grooms set up a bedroom for the girl to stay in when she visited. During one of the visits, Grooms allegedly "rubbed baby lotion on the child's buttox," according to the report.
Police said on Saturday, Feb. 2, Grooms showed up at the home where the 9-year-old had previously lived -- they'd since moved. The new property owner allegedly told Grooms to get off the property, but Grooms returned for several days, threatening the home owner to "deliver certain items to the nine-year old-female [or] he would end [the homeowner's] life."
On Friday morning, Clarksville Tactical Unit was called to serve warrants on Grooms at his home, where they discovered a shrine dedicated to the young girl.
Several pictures and handwritten signs lined Grooms' walls -- in one section weremultiple pictures of children with the words, "I live only to serve my queen," The Leaf Chronicle reported.
He was charged with aggravated sexual battery, assault, and aggregated criminal trespass.
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