A Roxbury man was committed to a state hospital for a mental health evaluation following his arraignment this week for allegedly exposing himself through a window to children in an elementary school gymnasium, Suffolk County District Attorney Daniel F. Conley said.

TYRONE CURRY (D.O.B. 1/16/79) is charged with open and gross lewdness for the Tuesday morning incident, which took place outside the John Winthrop Elementary School in Dorchester. At his arraignment the same day, Assistant District Attorney April English recommended that he be held on $2500 cash bail and be ordered to stay away from the school; after hearing from the court clinician, Roxbury District Court Judge David Poole ordered Curry committed to Bridgewater State Hospital for a two-week evaluation.

Poole told attorneys that he would set bail at a post-evaluation hearing on Nov. 12.

Boston Police responded to a radio call at about 8:15 a.m. for a man exposing himself in the Brookford Street school’s playground. On arrival, they spoke with school faculty members who said a man with his pants pulled down had been banging on the window and trying to get the young students’ attention.

The officers found Curry in the rear of the school. Curry’s pants were not pulled down and he denied that they had been. When asked what he was doing in the playground, Curry allegedly said, “I used to teach here.” He further said that he had come to spend time with the children.

Officers also spoke with nearby residents, who said that they had seen Curry walking around the playground with his pants pulled down for about an hour that morning. Based on those statements and the statements of a gym teacher who had witnesses Curry’s actions at the window, the officers took Curry into custody and notified the Boston Police Sexual Assault Unit.