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Foster Voyeur
March 28, 2015 permalink
An unnamed Manitoba foster parent outfitted his home, and several others, with cameras to record members of his family and visitors undressed. From another news report, all but one of the targets were female.
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Bathroom spy cams put in foster home, friend's cottage
A Manitoba man who used mini-spy cameras to record friends, co-workers and children as they used the washroom should go to prison for eight years, a judge was told Thursday.
The 44-year-old accused, a long-time foster father prior to his arrest, pleaded guilty to nine counts of voyeurism and one count each of making and possessing child pornography.
The offences were committed between 2010 and 2012 at a Winnipeg foster home, a second Winnipeg home, his Gimli home and a friend's cottage in Ontario.
"He's offending at every location he is where he has access to bathrooms," Crown attorney Debbie Buors told Judge Brent Stewart.
Victims included a foster son, his own daughter and 10 other children.
Police arrested the man in November 2012 after his teenage foster son found a pen camera hidden in a shaving kit in the bathroom. Police later seized a wealth of computer equipment and spy cameras from the Winnipeg and Gimli homes yielding hundreds of bathroom videos.
"If police did not catch me I would still be doing it," the man told a probation officer in a pre-sentence report prepared for court. "I knew it was wrong ... I don't know where my conscience was."
Police interviewed the man's wife, who said he always "made it clear" no one was to ever move his shaving kit. She called the man "a great actor and a master manipulator."
Defence lawyer Todd Bourcier recommended the man be sentenced to just 18 months in jail.
The accused will return to court for sentencing in late April.
Source: Winnipeg Sun
