An East Plano mother is desperate for the public’s help identifying a strange man she says has been sneaking up to her young daughter’s window, trying to get a peek inside.

Home surveillance video shared with NBC 5 captured the latest alleged intrusion this past weekend, which is now part of a police investigation.

When a strange man kept popping up near her home, Nedra Bounds assumed he was simply a drunk cutting through her neighborhood alley.

“There’s people walking down our alleys drinking,” she said. “That’s pretty normal.”

Then there was the time she said they heard jingling coming from near the alley and discovered a man near the back of her home.

“This guy stood up and his pants were unzipped,” she said.

And then they noticed a stack of loose bricks belonging to her neighbor suddenly appeared underneath her daughter’s bedroom window.

Odd, she thought.

Bounds said things took a disturbing turn when her daughter came out of her bedroom and told her, “There’s a man standing at my window.”

The same stranger, Bounds insisted, has been repeatedly creeping up to her 13-year-old daughter’s bedroom window at night over the past few months.

The latest alleged incident, she said, happened on a rainy Saturday night.

Bounds said she filed a police report, providing the report number to NBC 5, and has long taken steps to increase her daughter’s safety.

She’s added a floodlight and a surveillance camera, which finally captured the alleged perpetrator.

“We’ve closed off the window, we’ve blocked her in every way we can, blinds, curtains, all of it,” said Bounds. “We put up every deterrent. The thing we need help with is to get this guy to stop.”

NBC 5 confirmed Saturday night that the Plano Police Department is investigating the alleged incident. Plano detectives said they received a still image of the man and are looking for him as a “person of interest” for “suspicious activity.”

In a previous brief confrontation between the same man and her brother, Bounds said the man only spoke Spanish. She said she feels frustrated because she’s called the police multiple times, and the man has yet to be identified.

“[Police told us] that we needed basically to figure out who he was and start posting around the neighborhood, and that’s where it got frustrating to me and I took to Nextdoor,” she said. “I feel like the onus of the investigation has been on me.”

Posting the man’s photograph on Nextdoor led neighbors to rally behind Bounds.

One neighbor gave her a new idea for stopping the man: chili powder and Sriracha sauce on her daughter’s windowsill.

“I did it instantly because he’s always stumbling and drunk. It’s dark, he can’t see the windowsill, so if he stumbles on it, we know he’s been caught with his pants down, and if he’s doing what we think he is doing … it’s a deterrent,” she said.

Perhaps the perpetrator will return and end up begging for help, she said, hoping: “He screams, we call the cops and they come get him if the plan works, because this is all I got.”

Bounds made it clear she is prepared and ready to protect her family inside their home in case the visits escalate to an attempted home invasion.

“Then I’m going to do what I have to and I’m prepared for that inside,” she said. “That’s why I’m not worried about our safety. I’m just irritated we’re here.”

She said she is not angry at the police, but something’s got to give. As a domestic abuse survivor who had to find a way to escape a dangerous situation on her own, Bounds said she understands the limitations and challenges in cases like this.

“I know how the system works and I know what I’m supposed to do now, and I feel like I’ve done what I’m supposed to do and I feel like it’s not working,” she said. “She’s not safe. I’m doing everything I can to keep her safe, but I can’t take care of him. I need help with that. I feel like I’m not getting the help I need with that, and I feel like I’m not getting help with that, and it’s overwhelming … I’m living my worst nightmare.”

Anyone with information that can help police identify the suspicious man, please call the Plano Police Department.