FREDERIC SERRE
The 1019 Report

A 50-year-old Vaudreuil-Dorion man will spend the next two and a half years behind bars after pleading guilty to hiding cameras inside two bathrooms of his residence to spy on his daughter and her friends.

A judge sentence the father to 30 months at the Valleyfield courthouse on July 11 and ordered him to be listed on a sexual offenders list for the next 20 years.

The man’s daughter testified that one evening last March, she and a friend discovered a USB key inside the garage of their residence and decided to see what was on it. What they found were videos filmed between 2015 and 2021 by cameras hidden in two bathrooms. The videos showed the young women showering, using the bathroom and getting undressed. The identity of the man cannot be revealed under a court order to protect the identity of the victims.

According to the Sûreté du Québec, the man also set up a camera in his bedroom, where he filmed about 30 videos of him having sex with his wife without her consent. The couple has since separated.

The accused’s spouse told the court that she viewed the videos after her daughter told her about the discovery of the USB key. She then immediately called the authorities.

According to police, nine of the victims seen in the videos are friends of the daughter. In some of the earlier videos, the daughter was only nine years old.

The man was arrested in March. He pleaded guilty shortly after to charges of production and possession of child pornography and voyeurism. While being sentenced earlier this month, the man was deemed to be a high-risk offender. The judge ordered that he be forbidden from using the Internet and cannot be in the presence of minors for the next 10 years.