Female colleagues of a health professional who secretly filmed them using the toilet have told him they’re “disgusted” and “dehumanised” by his actions. A 44-year-old man, who has interim name suppression, installed a small camera in a bathroom used by staff, capturing video footage of at least 10 colleagues using the toilet. A court heard the man’s offending only came to light by chance when he lost his tablet computer, and it was recovered by police. He had earlier pleaded guilty in the Nelson District Court to eight charges of making an intimate visual recording. At his sentencing on Thursday three victim impact statements were read detailing the emotional and psychological impact the offending had on the man’s colleagues. One woman, whose statement was read on her behalf, said she was “personally disgusted, sick, degraded and vulnerable that my basic right to privacy has been violated.” It had taken her “months” to be able to use the toilets at her place of work again. Another woman said she now had a “tainted view of men and medical professionals”.
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