'Hunted,' 'shattered,' 'scared': How victims say Canada's most prolific voyeur has altered their lives
This article details the lasting psychological impact on victims of a prolific voyeur in Canada who secretly filmed hundreds of women and children. Despite the perpetrator's recent sentencing, many victims remain unaware their images are still circulating online.
Why it matters
It highlights the ongoing trauma of digital privacy violations and the systemic challenges in removing non-consensual intimate imagery from the internet.
A cellphone video would later show a voyeur trailing the family, before getting close enough to slip a camera beneath the girl's pleated skirt.
When police told the girl's mother, she faced a dilemma: tell her daughter, or keep it to herself?
"Learning my daughter's image had been taken and posted on child pornography websites was devastating," she wrote in a victim impact statement read in court earlier this year.
"I have carried significant stress over how I want to tell her and how she will cope with the information once she learns the truth."
The teen is one of 652 women and children filmed in what officials claim is the largest case of voyeurism ever reported in Canada.
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