A former police clerk stands accused of secretly filming close to 70 of his male colleagues using the bathroom, authorities say.
The invasion of privacy occurred, of all places, in the headquarters of the Long Beach Police Department.
KCAL reports that the ex-employee by the name of Sergio Nieto was arrested with roughly 115 recordings in his possession.
He’s been charged with 115 misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy, and the formal complaint lists 69 victims.
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According to the complaint, the cellphone videos Nieto took over a three-month period show men changing their clothes and using the facilities.
As a police clerk, Nieto regularly reviewed accidentally-filmed police body cam footage, taken in places like bathrooms. Several of the men Nieto filmed chose not to be part of the case against him, likely because there were already so many victims willing to come forward.
“It’s all misdemeanor conduct. So even though it sounds really creepy and sounds like an invasion of privacy it’s a very low level invasion of privacy but misdemeanor counts can be stacked,” said legal analyst Alexandra Kazarian. “So if it’s the same victim at different times than each time, that six months can be stacked.”
Some of the victims reportedly include very high-ranking members of the Long Beach Police Department, which can’t mean anything good for Nieto in terms of how the case is prosecuted and sentenced.
The behavior came to light after one of Nieto’s co-workers witnessed what they reported to be Nieto behaving suspiciously in the restroom.
He is currently free on a $25,000 bail.
Umoja
You know – we used to live in communities without plumbing where this would have been an every day occurrence: in a bowl or in a hole in the ground.
What if notions of privacy created the setting for eroticising privacy?
nitejonboy
Who wants to watch someone take a dump ? It’s not like they were hard and jerking off in the bathroom or anything.
wld8hrt
One of the biggest problems we face as a society is to just throw things away. Including people. You say the person is mentally and should be locked up. To me that statement is almost worse than the crime itself.
Someone who is mentally ill should receive the treatment they need at a proper facility. Not thrown into a dangerous place for something they cannot control. And, on top of that injustice, by putting them in the prison system our republican “friends” profit from them being there.
Until we learn to act with thought rather than emotion, we will never evolve as a species.
surreal33
WLD8HRT it is documented that sex offenders CANNOT be treated and reintegrated into society. Sadly they are beyond repair and do need locked away before their behavior escalates to physical violence.
buzzy58
Are you serious? Some people are charged with sex offences that are innocent. Do you mean they should be in jail for something as simple as looking at a pic? What about the 18 year old boy that was arrested for having sex with his 17 year old girlfriend? They had been dating AND having sex for years but because HE aged-out of “childhood” he was arrested and has to register as a sex offender for the rest of his life. Can you imagine how difficult his life is going to get? Sex offenders ARE NOT beyond repair. You are an idiot!
Terrycloth
I guess some Billy Clubs are bigger than others…