MOULTRIE, Ga. — A Decatur County man on the state’s list of sex predators was arrested on Thursday in connection with three girls who reported seeing an elderly man expose himself at a Moultrie retailer.

Moultrie police arrested Cecil Elvin Barfield after he was identified using Wal-Mart store surveillance video, said Moultrie Police Department Maj. Tonero Bender.

The store manager at the 641 Veterans Parkway S. store reported that an elderly white male had expose himself to three girls.

One of two 9-year-old girls who were victims told police that the man followed her, “showing his private” parts to her and her companions. The other two girls were 8 and 9.

“Through the investigation (we) were able to identify the offender who was on video at Wal-Mart exposing himself,” Bender said.

Police also suspect that Barfield is the same man who exposed himself earlier in the year to girls at the Rose’s store in Moultrie.

The Decatur County Sheriff’s Office assisted in the identification of Barfield and he was arrested the Dougherty County Sheriff’s Office arrested him on Thursday, Bender said.

Barfield, 80, 1 E. Calhoun St., Bainbridge, has been charged with three counts of child molestation by Moultrie police.

Barfield is listed on the Decatur County Sheriff’s sex offender registry list as a predator.

He previously has been convicted on 16 counts of child molestation, according to the Georgia Department of Corrections web site. He last was imprisoned — from June 2010-Nov. 2013 — after a conviction on a charge of failing to register as a sex offender.

He also has served prison sentences of seven and a half years between 1979 and 1987, and a little under nine years from 1993-2002, according to the agency.

“This was all a collaboration of agencies working together in Southwest Georgia to get this individual in custody and off the streets,” Bender said.