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Teacher Filmed Change Room


A SCHOOL teacher set up a video camera behind a changing room mirror to film female students undressing, a court heard yesterday.
The 33-year-old man appeared in Sydney's Waverley Local Court charged with 22 child pornography offences.
He was one of the first of almost 200 people to appear in court in Australia's biggest crackdown on internet child pornography.
The married teacher and church youth pastor faced court charged with eight counts of possessing child pornography, seven counts of installing a device to facilitate filming for indecent purposes, and seven counts of filming for indecent purposes.
His wife and family sat in the public gallery and listened as details of the charges against him were read to the court.
Prosecutor Sergeant Caroline Martin told the court the man had set up a video camera behind a mirror in a school changing room and filmed female students undressing.
Magistrate Lee Gilmore said search warrants executed at the teacher's home recovered a computer with images of young children engaged in sexual acts and in sexual poses on the hard drive.
Ms Gilmore said a search of the school uncovered videotapes of female pupils.
"The videotapes that were taken possession of were viewed and they showed females, who appeared to be under the age of 16, to be changing between items of clothing," she told the court.
She said police alleged the teacher had made "full and frank admissions" of accessing child pornography and of filming the female pupils.
Ms Gilmore described the crimes as abhorrent and said it was inevitable the defendant would face a jail sentence.
"These crimes, by their very nature, are of course abhorrent to the community at large," she said.
She refused an application for bail on the grounds of the serious sexual nature of the offences and for the protection of the victims.
The hearing was adjourned until Tuesday.
Herald Sun (2-10-2004)
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