By Steve Oldfield
NKyTribune staff writer
A man convicted of groping multiple women in Covington back in 2022 and 2023 has now been arrested on rape charges in Sharonville.
Cameron Chambers, 34, is facing rape, abduction and kidnapping charges, accused of attacking a woman he met at a motel after offering to take her to a gas station to buy cigarettes.
Back in 2023, Chambers was brought to justice in Covington after residents in the Main Strasse neighborhood joined forces to crack the case. They used home security camera footage and passed out flyers warning women in the neighborhood to be on guard.
“It was disturbing for anyone who had been grabbed but knowing he was still out there on the loose was even worse,” said Don Lubbers, one of several neighbors who got involved to help solve the case.
“Everyone was on edge,” said Jean, a woman who had several encounters with Chambers. At first, Jean (not her real name), said Chambers yelled obscenities at her from his car, followed her home and kept circling her block. The next time, she said Chambers was more aggressive. He approached her on the sidewalk as she was returning home from dinner at a restaurant in the neighborhood. Jean was able to get inside her home before the encounter turned physical. But other women she knows weren’t as lucky.
Chambers grabbed their breasts and genitals then would run away.
Jean worked with her neighbor whose home security camera captured the encounter to pull a photo of Chambers and his license plate number. Another neighbor who worked at a Cincinnati television station produced a news story about the case that Jean believes helped to get it solved by Covington police.
“We breathed a sigh of relief when we heard he had been arrested but obviously, he didn’t spend that much time in jail,” Jean said.
Chambers was prosecuted on charges of sexual assault in the third degree and received 90 days in jail, of which he served 60 days. He also was ordered to stay out of Covington.