JULY 10--For the second time in two years, an Ohio man has been charged with public indecency for allegedly “having sexual relations with a rubber pool float,” police report. 
 
 Edwin Tobergta, 34, was indicted today in connection with last month’s incident, which reportedly occurred outside his home in Hamilton, a southwestern Ohio city. 
 
 According to a Hamilton Police Department report, Tobergta “stepped out of his back door, naked and was having sexual relations with a rubber pool float.” Investigators added that Tobergta’s alleged encounter with the item “occurred in front of several children who saw his genitals and his actions with the float. The children were under the age of 10 and it occurred in the afternoon during the daylight hours.” 
 
 Pictured in the above mug shot, Tobergta is being held in the Butler County jail in lieu of $25,000 on a felony public indecency charge. 
 
 In August 2011, Tobergta was arrested after a witness reported seeing him having sex with a pink blow-up pool raft early one Sunday morning. Tobergta, whose pants were at his ankles, was trysting with the raft in an alley, not a swimming pool. 
 
 When a witness yelled at Tobergta, he reportedly threw “a pink object over the fence,” reported cops, who added that, “A pink raft was located in the back yard” of a neighboring home. 
 
 Today’s felony indictment of Tobergta notes that the defendant has previously been convicted on three or more occasions of public indecency. (3 pages) ||||| A man convicted of public indecency two years ago for having sex with a pool toy is in trouble again. 
 
 Man Accused Of Having Sex With Neighbor's Pool Float A man accused of having sex with a neighbor's pool toy has had trouble with the law before. More 
 
 A grand jury on Wednesday indicted Edwin Tobergta on a charge of public indecency. 
 
 According a police report, on June 15, Tobergta "stepped out of his back door, naked, and was having sexual relations with a rubber pool float." 
 
 "This occurred in front of several children who saw his genitals and his actions with the float," the report states. 
 
 In 2011, Tobergta was accused of having sex with a neighbor's pool float. In 2002, a woman told police he did the same thing with an inflatable pumpkin in her yard. 
 
 After Tobergta's 2011 arrest, a family member said Tobergta has mental issues and needed help. It's not known if he has undergone treatment. 
 
 Tobergta is being held at the Butler County jail on $25,000 bond. He's scheduled for arraignment on July 23. ||||| By Lauren Pack and Eric Schwartzberg 
 
 Staff Writer 
 
 Neighbors of a man repeatedly arrested for public indecency said they are alarmed by his behavior and hope he receives mental help. 
 
 Edwin Charles Tobergta III, 34, of Harmon Avenue, was arrested June 17 for allegedly stepping out his back door naked at about 1:20 p.m. June 15 and having “sexual relations with a rubber pool float,” according to a Hamilton police report. 
 
 Tobergta was indicted by a Butler County grand jury Wednesday for public indecency, a fifth-degree felony. If convicted, he faces 12 months behind bars. 
 
 Theresa Teague’s 10-year-old daughter was enjoying her new swimming pool June 15 when she ran back inside her house and said, “Edwin was doing something weird out there,” the Hamilton resident told the JournalNews Thursday. 
 
 Tobergta was caught in the sex act with an orange inflatable toy that Teague said a neighbor had put out for the trash. 
 
 “He was yelling, ‘Please forgive me. I won’t do it again. Don’t call the police,’ ” as he ran back into his house, Teague said. 
 
 The girl is now hesitant to play in the back yard, even though she knows Tobergta is in jail, Teague said. 
 
 “We are looking at putting her in counseling,” she said 
 
 Timothy Teague, the girl’s grandfather, said he is appalled by what happened. 
 
 “How can a man — a man — take and do something …. with a rubber raft in front of a 10-year-old child? Its very appalling,” he said. 
 
 Theresa Teague moved to the neighborhood in October and said she had no idea about Tobergta’s past. 
 
 “I feel like as public citizens, we need to be warned of things like that,” she said. 
 
 Tobergta has been arrested several times previously for similar offenses, according to Hamilton Municipal Court records. 
 
 In August 2011, he was arrested at his home after he was seen engaging in sexual conduct with a pink inflatable swimming pool raft, according to police records. 
 
 The incident allegedly occurred in an alley behind his home. The witness, who was the owner of the raft, reported to police that the suspect took the raft with him after being shouted at to stop, according to records. 
 
 After the 2011 arrest, police said Tobergta admitted to the act and told officers that he has a problem and needs help. 
 
 Kristen Proffit, a neighbor, said Tobergta is a “nice guy” and that whatever crimes he has committed can be remedied by therapy, not imprisonment. 
 
 “I’ve talked to him. He said he was trying to change,” she said. 
 
 Theresa Teague said incarceration alone wouldn’t help Tobergta. 
 
 “This man needs to have some sort of psychiatric evaluation … instead of turning back to living next door,” she said. 
 
 After a 2008 conviction for felony public indecency, Tobergta was sentenced to five years community control. 
 
 In that incident, officers responded to a home on Howell Avenue to a report of a naked man standing in a neighbor’s yard and engaging in sexual activity, according to records. 
 
 Butler County Common Pleas Judge Noah Powers said in 2oo8 that he sentenced Tobergta to community control so he could get help for a mental disability and drug problems. 
 
 In 2006, Tobergta was charged with public indecency and aggravated menacing while being held at the Butler County Jail. Deputies reported that Tobergta began to remove his uniform and exposed his genitals to a corrections officer. 
 
 Deputies reported that Tobergta refused to put his uniform back on, attempted to grab an officer and then threatened that officer. 
 
 Tobergta is being held at the Butler County Jail on $25,000 bond. He is scheduled to be arraigned July 23 before Butler County Common Pleas Judge Charles Pater.
– What can we say: Edwin Tobergta has a type. That type is rubber, inflatable, and, presumably, brightly colored. The Ohio man has been charged, twice in less than two years, with engaging in sexual relations with a pool toy, the Smoking Gun reports. In the most recent incident, for which Tobergta was indicted yesterday, he was spotted outside his Hamilton home last month "naked and ... having sexual relations with a rubber pool float," according to the police report. Children under the age of 10 were witnesses to the disturbing daytime incident, the report adds. In August 2011, a witness saw Tobergta having sex with a pink inflatable raft, pants around his ankles, in an alley. The witness yelled, and Tobergta threw the raft over a fence, where it ended up in the backyard of a home; Tobergta was arrested. According to his felony indictment, he's been convicted of public indecency on at least three occasions before this most recent incident; WHIO reports he's been arrested for "similar offenses" at least five times. WLWT reports that one of those incidents involved an inflatable pumpkin in one of his neighbors' yards.