Harvard Graduate Charged With Indecent Exposure After Repeated Incidents In Pforzheimer House

A recent Harvard graduate is facing misdemeanor charges after prosecutors allege he entered a Pforzheimer House dormitory and walked through its halls undressed from the waist down on multiple occasions between 2024 and 2025.

Prosecutors charged Innocent K. Munai ’25, a former Pforzheimer resident, with two counts of indecent exposure — a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail — in May, months after Harvard University Police Department officers first responded to reports of a partially nude unidentified man repeatedly walking around the third floor of Comstock Hall.

Appearing at a Cambridge District Court hearing on Friday, Munai accepted terms of pretrial probation that could allow him to avoid a criminal trial if he continues therapy and commits no new criminal offenses for the next four months.

Munai was first arraigned and pleaded not guilty last June. In late July, he sought court review after being unable to obtain a lawyer as public defenders across Massachusetts went on a three-month strike demanding higher pay — a work stoppage that forced the dismissal of dozens of criminal cases statewide.

Munai retained Harvard Law School professor Dehlia I. Umunna, a former public defender, to represent him in August. Umunna did not respond to a request for comment.

A Feb. 13, 2025 police report from HUPD cited at least five incidents in which Munai was reported to have walked through Comstock Hall while “exposing his genitalia to students/staff,” beginning sometime in spring 2024 and continuing through February 2025.

Munai did not respond to repeated phone calls and emails requesting comment.

The criminal charges relate to the Feb. 1, 2025 incident. According to the report, Munai was seen on the third floor of Comstock — which, at the time, housed mostly women’s dormitories — naked from the waist down, wearing only a t-shirt and carrying a towel over his shoulder.

Pforzheimer resident tutor Jill Jones encountered Munai during that incident and reported it to HUPD. Jones told Munai to “please put some pants on,” according to the report. Munai replied, “yeah sure,” before continuing down the hallway. He was not seen again that day.

Following the encounter, Pforzheimer resident dean Monique A. Roy emailed residents of Comstock’s third floor on Feb. 3 warning them about an “unknown male individual in the hallway who was partially unclothed” and who “did not appear to be a resident of Pfoho.” Roy later sent a similar message to all Pforzheimer residents.

Within days, investigators had identified the individual as Munai. According to the Feb. 13 police report, officers determined by Feb. 7 that Munai was the person involved and that he would be criminally charged.

But House administrators did not send a follow-up message to the Feb. 3 email publicly identifying Munai after investigators reached that conclusion.

A College spokesperson declined to comment, citing a policy against discussing student matters.

Munai previously lived in Comstock during the 2022-2023 academic year, before moving off campus, according to the police report. Though no longer a resident, he continued to enter Pforzheimer after moving out while working for the Harvard Student Agencies laundry services, which collects laundry from the residence.

Asha M. Khurana ’27, HSA’s president, wrote in a statement that Munai did not gain swipe access to Comstock through his position with HSA.

“The dorm access of this individual was not acquired through his employment with HSA, but rather through his Harvard issued access to dorms,” Khurana wrote.

House administrators were made aware of the situation as early as Dec. 11, and later held meetings with students and pledged to have Securitas security officers make “more frequent rounds.” The full Pforzheimer community was not informed until after the February incident.

Weeks after the February incident, the House installed keypad locks on the communal bathrooms on the second and third floors of Comstock Hall.

In each of the reported incidents, Munai did not appear to interact with students he encountered and responded only when addressed by House staff members, according to the police report.

At least four different students reported seeing Munai in Comstock to House staff members, per the report.

If Munai complies with the terms of his probation, his case will be dismissed when the probation period ends on July 13.

—Staff writer Shawn A. Boehmer can be reached at [email protected] and on Signal at shawnb.18. Follow him on X @ShawnBoehmer.

—Staff writer Claire A. Michal can be reached at [email protected] and on Signal at ClaireMichal.154.