MYRTLE BEACH, S.C. — The content creators arrested by South Carolina police over public videos that were uploaded to an adult website have released a video via Facebook tearfully apologizing for their actions.
In the video, re-published by the Myrtle Beach Sun News, the couple — now identifying themselves as Eric and Lori Harmon — spoke directly to the camera after their second arrest this week.
As XBIZ reported, the Harmons had been originally arrested by local police and charged with multiple sex crimes, including obscenity, after police were tipped off about public sex videos they had allegedly shot in Myrtle Beach and other locations, and uploaded to an adult website.
The Horry County prosecutor is charging the couple with multiple charges of indecent exposure and also with “participation in preparation of obscene material,” part of South Carolina’s rarely enforced obscenity statute which considers all filming of sexual acts illegal.
'We're Sorry, Please..."
“I’d like to think I was a good person,” a visibly moved Lori Harmon told her Facebook audience. “I was just having some fun. That’s what I thought I was doing. But it was wrong — it’s against the law and I should not have done that and I’m truly sorry and I hate, hate this, because of my family, my kids having to go through this and see this.”
Her husband Eric Harmon, also charged for the videos, added that they “did not want our kids to see this or even know about this but the media has blasted us all over the world and of course our kids found it.”
“They are teenagers,” Lori Harmon said on the verge of tears. “They can see it. It hurts, because they’re my babies, and I love them, and they’re hurting — with me.”
At that point Lori Harmon broke down and started sobbing.
“I’m here to apologize,” she continued. “I’ve learned a lesson. I’m not gonna do it again. If anything, please reach out to me, I’d really like to make it right for you all because that’s not how I want to live my life. I was just having fun and I got out of control. And this was a huge wake-up call.”
“And I’m awake. I’ve been awake for days and days and days. But we’re sorry, please…” Lori Harmon concluded.
Sex, Police and Videotapes
The original January 16 arrest, according to the local ABC News affiliate, occurred “after officers were tipped-off to videos showing the couple performing sex acts inside a glass gondola at the Myrtle Beach SkyWheel within view of the public, and at a community pool in the Surfside Beach area of Horry County sometime during the December 2020.”
The alleged indecent exposure was not witnessed or reported by anyone at the time of the incident and the investigation by local police seems to have only consisted of reviewing the videos allegedly posted by the couple to the adult site.
