A diving instructor in Pingtung County was last week sentenced to four months in jail for secretly filming a woman in a scuba shop’s shower, despite destroying evidence by swallowing the camera’s memory card.
In March, the defendant, Wu Kuang-liang (吳冠樑), secretly filmed a woman showering from a neighboring stall at a scuba diving and supply shop he worked at in Hengchun Township (恆春), the Pingtung District Court ruling said.
After the woman noticed he was filming and screamed, Wu quickly took the memory card out of the camera, bit it and swallowed the broken pieces, it said.
Photo: Taipei Times
Police officers investigating the incident seized the camera and retrieved the pieces of the memory card after Wu had passed them in his stool, it said.
Wu admitted to filming the woman, and the shop owner fired him and provided police access to the store’s surveillance footage, the ruling said, adding that Wu had caused the woman emotional distress and trauma.
The court found Wu guilty under Article 319-1 of the Criminal Code on offenses against sexual privacy, which allows for a prison sentence of no more than three years.
The court handed him a four-month prison sentence, although permitted him to pay a fine in lieu of imprisonment.
The ruling can be appealed.
Additional reporting by Jason Pan
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