She felt like she was being watched. Then she found a hidden camera in her bathroom
CBC
Her nightmare started in the bath.
A young single mother looked up and felt her privacy evaporate when she noticed a tiny camera in the bathroom ceiling of the basement apartment she lived in with her toddler.
She said it looked like a screw, no bigger than a pinky nail.
"But I had a feeling it wasn't a screw. I was shaking, I was in sheer, utter panic," she said in an interview from her mother's home in Digby County, N.S.
The woman, who CBC News cannot name because her identity and the identity of her son are protected by a court-ordered publication ban, said finding the camera turned her world upside down.
"I still feel sick to my stomach because of it," she said. "It was the sickest feeling of my life. I don't even know a word to describe how low and violated I felt at that time."
She immediately called the RCMP, who she said pulled the camera from the wall, along with a long wire that they traced to the landlord's home upstairs.
"He actually had a space in his bathroom that he intentionally put," she said. "He cut out specific floorboards and put in a special vent to watch on this camera."
Nova Scotia RCMP confirmed to CBC News that officers executed a search warrant at the address and seized "items associated to the offence of voyeurism".
According to the Public Prosecution Service, the landlord was charged with voyeurism, and has been released on conditions before a May court appearance.
CBC News cannot identify the landlord to avoid indirectly identifying the woman who was his tenant.
Privacy experts say what this woman and her child were subjected to is extremely dangerous in today's digital era.
"There's a concern about, was it recorded? Where is that recording, where did it go? Was it shared with anybody? Was it posted online? Is this going to be a recurring intrusion into their life?" said David Fraser, a privacy lawyer with McInnes Cooper in Halifax.
Fraser said voyeurism is "an incredibly serious offence" on its own, but other charges could also be on the table as the RCMP continues to investigate, depending who was caught on camera and what was done with the footage.
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