An umbrella group of Ontario sexual-assault centres is encouraging the Crown to appeal the acquittal of a London high-school teacher who secretly took videos of female students with a pen camera.
“Certainly, we’re watching it and certainly we’re very concerned with the message it sends,” said Lenore Lukasik-Foss, president of the Ontario Coalition of Rape Crisis Centres, about the acquittal of Ryan Jarvis of voyeurism last week.
“That our courts would not recognize this, that this is exactly what voyeurism is, is quite shocking and concerning,” she said.
Jarvis, 39, taught English at H.B. Beal secondary school four years ago when he was caught red-handed making surreptitious videos of 27 female students.
All the videos showed the camera angle aimed at the upper bodies and faces of the students.
Five of the videos were exclusively of the chest and cleavage areas. (more...)
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