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Voyeur dad gets four-month sentence
COURTS: 44-year-old father was convicted after photos of his daughters and their friends were found on his computer
Last Updated: April 20, 2012 8:04pm
The man, 44, was found guilty of the little-tested law of voyeurism in January. This week, Superior Court Justice Alan Bryant sentenced the man to four months in jail and two years of probation.
It's one of the few voyeurism cases to be tried since the law was enacted in 2005.
The man's photos were discovered in 2009 by one of his daughters when she was using his computer.
The photos were of her and her friends -- zoom shots of their clothed private areas. They were all in their early teens.
London police found more than 6,000 photos focused on their chests, buttocks and genitals. They were filed under the initials of each girl's name.
Some of the photos were taken through the basement window where the man spent a lot of time on the computer.
Police also found pictures of the man masturbating. The man's name can't be identified because of a publication ban that protects the victims' identities.
Bryant said in his sentencing decision that there wasn't any evidence of sexual touching or sexual interference.
The girls weren't tricked into having their pictures taken and the images were not distributed.
A pre-sentence report was prepared for the case. The man told the probation officer who wrote it that he came from a troubled background and was a victim of "confinement, sexual torture and severe emotional abuse" as a child.
He was placed in foster care as a young teenager and had difficulty with the law when he was a teenager.
His marriage has ended and his bail conditions prohibited him from contacting his kids. He has been living with another woman and her teen daughter.
There is also some history of panic disorder, post-traumatic stress disorder and insomnia. His past mental health issues have made it tough to stay employed.
Bryant noted the man expressed no remorse, and blamed his eldest daughter "for putting the pictures on his computer as a form of revenge.
"He hypothesizes that if his eldest daughter did not do it, it was likely that his estranged wife did it."
The man's position "lacks reality," the judge said.
Two of his daughters filed victim impact statements. One no longer trusts her father and doesn't trust men in general. The other wrote she felt guilty for not protecting her siblings.
The daughter who found the photos wrote that she misses her father and wants to regain contact with him.
Part of the man's probation order includes a condition to stay away from his children. His name will be added to the federal sex offender registry.
