Northern Ont. man receives rare sentence after pleading guilty to mischief
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A northern Ontario man who was charged with voyeurism and mischief after his ex-wife found a secret hard drive with intimate images and videos that he had taken of her has received a rare sentence.
A northern Ontario man who was charged with voyeurism and mischief after his ex-wife found a secret hard drive with intimate images and videos that he had taken of her has received a rare sentence.
The man received an absolute discharge in an online hearing Monday following a joint submission between the defence and Crown after pleading guilty to one count of mischief and having the four counts of voyeurism withdrawn.
In the agreed statement of facts read in court, the couple were married for nearly 20 years and he would often make video and audio recordings of his family, sometimes while his phone was in his pocket.
The couple separated in 2018, but they continued to live together in the same house with their children.
After the separation, the woman found a hard drive with videos and photos of herself in various stages of undress, close-range intimate images and videos of them having sex.
She was concerned that some of the recordings were made without her knowledge and that he may have shared them.
A video of her mother in her bra and underwear getting undressed was also discovered, which the defence said was "clearly made inadvertently."
