Nude victims in ‘compromising’ acts
SOME of the footage seized from the voyeur who installed spy cams in the bathrooms used by 19 college girls showed some of the victims in ‘compromising positions’.
Sources said the incriminating footage was found in an MP4 player seized from the 34-year-old suspect.
“He would store the clips containing incriminating acts for his own use and delete the rest after watching them,” said a source.
The voyeur spent hours scouring the Net on how to install the spy cams before acquiring the equipment from eBay, a popular online auction site which deals with all kinds of gadgets, spending thousands of ringgit.
The source said the suspect got his chance when tenants of his double-storey house in Taman Bullion Mewah in Sentul complained of a faulty toilet two months ago.
He told the girls that he needed a day to repair the toilet and used the opportunity to install the cameras in the other bathrooms in the house.
The father of two, who was reported to have gained the trust of his tenants, then spent several hours a week sitting in his Toyota Avanza parked outside the house where he would get ‘live’ video streaming from the bathrooms via his laptop.
He would later transfer the footage to an MP4 player.
No one suspected anything although several neighbours saw him in the car, normally during lunch time.
The girls’ college mates confirmed seeing the suspect in his car when they came home for lunch but thought nothing of it.
“We did not even know that he owned the house. It never crossed our minds that he was up to no good,” said one of them.
The youth was one of the two who spotted the cameras after being alerted by the girls who lived next door. He declined to be identified.
He said the Avanza was usually parked under a tree or in front of the girls’ house two or three times a week.
“He looked as if he was reading something from a laptop, but we ignored him.
I only realised he was the landlord when police arrested him on Saturday night,” he said.
His friend said they usually came home for lunch, just like the other college students living in the area.
“We were shocked when one of the girls asked for our help after showing us a picture she took on her cell phone of something in the toilet.
“We went to their house and using a knife, we took off the cover and found the spy cam. We tested it and noticed that the camera was activated everytime the bathroom lights came on,” he said.
They called police who arrived at 10pm. After checking the house, police told the girls to ask the landlord to come over.
“The man was arrested when he arrived at midnight,” he said.
Sentul police chief Assistant Commissioner K.
Kumaran said the case is being investigated although it had been solved with the arrest of the suspect.
The case is being investigated under Section 292 of the Penal Code for possession of obscene objects which, if convicted, is punishable by a jail term of up to three years, or a fi ne, or both.
It is learnt that police will submit the investigation paper to the deputy public prosecutor’s office today.
On Monday, it was reported that 19 students living in the double-storey terrace house for two years did not know that they were being watched via spy cams installed in all the three bathrooms.
On Saturday evening, however, one of the girls who was showering noticed something sticking out of the ceiling and checked with her neighbours.
Upon investigating, they found the cameras installed near the fl uorescent lights.
Who's Watching You in Your Hotel Room?
Wes VernonSaturday, July 21, 2001 WASHINGTON - Next time you check into a hotel, you may want to consider asking if there are any hidden cameras in your assigned room.
There could be cameras hidden in mirrors, television sets, lamps and even the radio alarm clock on your nightstand.
"What? Hidden cameras in my hotel room? That’s like placing a hidden camera in my own home without my knowledge or consent. Once I’m in my hotel room, I’m in my home away from home.”
That’s your likely reaction.
However, Fox News reports that at least two hotels have bought that kind of security equipment. More than that may be involved. In an interview with NewsMax.com, Arielle Jamil, director of public affairs for Counter Spy Shops, specialty stores for high-tech spy equipment and devices, did not dispute us when we asked if two hotel chains had bought the spy gear.
Two hotel chains? Which ones?
"We don’t disclose the names of our customers,” replied Jamil, director of public affairs for the Counter Spy Shop chains.
So why on earth would a hotel want to jeopardize customer relations by risking the appearance of spying on its own guests?
"They buy it for security reasons.”
Yes, but that same equipment that can be used for security reasons can just as easily be used to spy on the hotel guest.
"Oh, but they use it only to look into the room at a time of the day when the guest is not there."
You mean in midday when the maids are cleaning?
"Maids, anyone else from housekeeping, engineering if there’s a mechanical problem that needs to be fixed." Hotels don’t want to be sued by guests who complain that something was stolen while they were out.
Okay, but how does the guest know that some voyeur on the hotel staff won’t use the equipment to peer in at a guest? And how does the hotel always know when the customer is out for the day? Some hotel guests keep odd hours.
"Well, you know, we just sell the equipment. We can’t be responsible for whatever the buyers choose to do with it," Jamil responded. "It’s the same thing with people who sell butcher knives. They don’t know if the customer is going to misuse it."
True, there were those who wondered if the O.J. Simpson case would spark a movement for knife control. But there is less temptation for misuse of a butcher knife or a gun. That is why the gun-control movement in this country has been on the defensive of late. Most folks don’t want to kill anybody. Putting spy equipment in the hands of a bored night clerk raises all kinds of temptations.
And another distinction: Killing people, of course, is illegal. Spying on people through legally purchased spy or "security" equipment is legal. That’s right. There’s no law preventing it, especially if it’s done in the name of "security."
The Counter Spy Shops are owned by the CCS International Inc., headquartered in New Rochelle, N.Y. Shops are in such far-flung locations as New York City, Washington, Beverly Hills, Miami, Hong Kong, London and South Korea.
Its Web site advertises a wide variety of spy equipment.
One ad says, "Who would suspect a video system to be concealed within the functioning alarm clock radio? CCS presents the most recent advancement in miniature surveillance technology … Due to its unique disguise, the camera can shoot pictures discretely even from close up."
Near the picture of a lamp, there is this:
"This hi-tech portable system allows you to monitor in real time, your office, home, store, property, store, garage, or business while you’re away." Or hotel room?
CCS says it has been in business since 1959. This is an industry that apparently has been growing. CCS has competition for this market.
Aimdiscount.com boasts "the best quality available in Wireless Hidden Camera Systems” that are "so successful because they appear to be everyday items.”
Among its advertised "everyday items” containing cameras are an alarm clock radio, a smoke alarm, a wireless wall clock, a picture frame, a lamp, an artificial plant basket, a night light, and even a "wireless tissue box.”
Jamil of CCS told NewsMax that the company has many different kinds of customers.
Government agencies?
"Lots,” she replied.
That is already universally suspected.
But when you question your privacy in, of all places, your own hotel room, you might think of William Raspberry’s recent column in the Washington Post saying that as far as privacy is concerned, the horse is out of the barn.
NewsMax.com, however, will not throw up its hands and give up this fight. Americans are entitled to the privacy they have come to expect. If you lose all privacy, you have crossed the line from a republic to a police state.
during these few days, ppl are talking bout a minister being caught having sex in a hotel with a woman by a spy-camera... so i was wondering, if i juz got married, and went for a honey moon, generally i will hav sex wit my wife... but den after hearing this, i realli nid to consider to stay in a hotel anymore.... especially, i m very pity for girls, coz i heard theres not onli spy cam in hotel but also changing rooms, public toilets... its like there no where safe anymore... haihz,, how can tis world become like tis...
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TRUE STORIES
1) In July 2002 an Ohio man staying in Knoxville at a major hotel chain found a hidden camera in a bathroom light fixture. He discovered the small video camera after noticing a tiny black spot. He thought it was an insect, but it turned out to be a hole in the fixture that concealed a video camera.
2) July 2003 Overton County Tennessee parents, upset that their children were filmed undressing in school locker rooms have filed suit, charging that school officials allowed surveillance cameras to be installed and then failed to secure the images.
3) A woman who says she noticed a video camera in the ceiling of the bathroom of a franchised toy is suing the retailer for invasion of privacy. She noticed a hole in the ceiling above the commode while visiting the suburban Atlanta store on March 21, 2003.
4) August 2004, Ithaca, New York - A college student called police after discovering a pinhole camera in the bathroom of the apartment she shared with three women, and now her landlord is charged with unlawful surveillance. The landlord faces four counts of unlawful video surveillance, a felony that can draw up to four years in prison. He also owns several rental properties near Cornell University. Police said they searched two other apartments and found two pinhole cameras and several video recordings of at least four students.
5) Guilty verdicts in 16 electronic eavesdropping cases were returned in Lenawee County Circuit Court against the owner of a tanning salon. The proprietor was arrested after police on Feb. 27 found a hidden camera in the tanning room and five tapes of customers.
