A Jehovah's Witness filmed up the skirts of hundreds of women and schoolgirls in central Wellington, and when visiting private homes to spread the faith.

Police believe at least 1000 women and girls could have been filmed by the man, 36, who would leave work at lunchtime to spy up their skirts on a handmade device attached to his briefcase.

The former Department of Internal Affairs employee, who has name suppression, has now been kicked out of his church. A member of his congregation at the Kingdom Hall of Jehovah's Witnesses in Kilbirnie confirmed he was not welcome back.

"He has been removed," the church member said. "Everybody has been very saddened by what has taken place. Any act of that nature is a concern."

After the man's arrest in March, police found 1400 recordings, most of which they believe he made around Wellington from February to October last year.

He altered a laptop bag to hide a camera, tailing groups of schoolgirls in Lambton Quay and around Wellington's central business district. He would manoeuvre the camera to film shots up their skirts, sometimes following them into food and clothing stores.

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Pupils from five Wellington high schools were identified.

He sometimes targeted mothers with young children, and filmed in the Wellington public library.

He also filmed women from his church as they went door-knocking, or during church meetings.

He installed a camera in the lounge of another person's home and in his own bathroom, where he caught church colleagues and family friends in their underwear or naked.

A Jehovah's Witness elder said the church was shocked and working with victims of a "harrowing" experience. "We have very high standards and it's just blown us away that this has happened."

The bulk of the recordings were made during work hours and lunch breaks, Detective Senior Sergeant John van den Heuvel said.

"He wasn't specific about which schoolgirls he filmed. If they were walking through the CBD, it appears, as far as he was concerned, they were fair game."

The man was eventually caught after a Farmers security guard monitoring CCTV cameras noticed him lurking behind women in the Cuba Mall store.

The guard followed him around the shop floor, and noticed a strange, USB-shaped device protruding from his briefcase, Farmers loss prevention manager Nathan Breed said.

"The male was then positioning the briefcase in a way that the security guard believed would give him observation up women's skirts."

When the security guard approached the man, he denied all accusations and left quickly. The guard phoned police, and followed him down the street until they arrived.

Mr Breed said similar incidents had happened at other Farmers stores nationwide, but never with such an elaborate device. "Usually it's with mobile phones."

When police tried to take the man back to the station, he tried to ditch the camera and denied what he had been doing. Later he co-operated to allow police to identify some of the victims.

He pleaded guilty to six charges in Wellington District Court yesterday, relating to 98 videos sampled from 1400 seized by police.

Each recording featured multiple victims in their underwear, and there were 180 victims in the sample videos.

There was no reason to believe the man had not made all 1400 videos, Mr van den Heuvel said. Police did not think any videos had been traded or distributed.

"What he's pleaded guilty to are the six charges, and the 98 videos were a fair representation of what was filmed. He's pleaded guilty to making those intimate recordings."

Defence lawyer Ian Miller said the man had not admitted making all the videos.

"We are quite firm in that what he has pleaded guilty to is not making 1400 records."

Mr van den Heuvel said that, although the vast majority of his victims would not know they had been filmed, police took the offending seriously.

Wellington schools contacted by The Dominion Post yesterday had no knowledge of the snooping.

Wellington Girls' College principal Julia Davidson said it was horrendous, and questioned why schools had not been notified by police. "I would have thought the police would have let us know - that's just so creepy."

Judge Chris Tuohy remanded the man until next month for sentencing.
http://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/8799082/Up-skirt-Viewer-a-Jehovahs-Witness

why are u always attacking the jw? leave them alone and get a job. with ur old and wrinkled fugly face. who gives a damn. everybody views skirt everyday. why does it have to be headline when we have politicians and ritualist killing us. u no day hear wetin day happen for benue? people are killing christians and all u find to report na wetin happen for abroad. focus on ur country

know ur lane and respect yourself. we are suffering here and u are distracting us with stupid stories that have no bearing. go on youtube you will see skirt viewers beign celebrated. make una no day take readers here day play. focus on the issues that can help this country grow. no one wants to see your old tohto anyways. it would be an eyesore. a serious pain in the eyes.

kolawoleibukun1:
why are u always attacking the jw? leave them alone and get a job. with ur old and wrinkled fugly face. who gives a damn. everybody views skirt everyday. why does it have to be headline when we have politicians and ritualist killing us. u no day hear wetin day happen for benue? people are killing christians and all u find to report na wetin happen for abroad. focus on ur country

know ur lane and respect yourself. we are suffering here and u are distracting us with stupid stories that has no bearing. go on youtube you will see skirt viewers beign celebrated. make una no day take readers here day play. focus on the issues that can help this country grow. no one wants to see your old tohto anyways. it would be an eyesore. a serious pain in the eyes.

JW minion spotted

i think say u no day read my comments before o. where is ur virginity? I am not a je and I have told you that many times. u are only trying to drag me to their level so that u can subjugate them. your dirty old trick no work for me. cos I do not give a stupid sheet abotu what you call me. I am here to uncover dirtiness way u hide for ur old tear tear pant.
old woman way no no her age. what is ur plan for your future? no plan. how long u hope to continue this nairaland thing? pikin way dem born wen u join nairaln don start school. they can now trek to school on their own. u still day her. born one na na wah. u are busy creating mass fetus martyrs.

save the planet. Donald trump is the best thing to help our fetus and children. a dead womb cannot create a population.

a woman without husband in nigeria is a waste. if u no get husband then where is ur virginity? can we see your rape case file number in the police station? no file of rape. doctors cannot confirm medical rupture. but is gone. did it disappear?

for 14 years u day warri day hang for enerhen jinction. even all those ashewo for there don born one or two keep for house. where ur own? where u day work? way ur husband? but na techno u day use. old girl still settles for techno after school and service. omashe oh. minion yakpa.

Salvation102:
JW minion spotted

kolawoleibukun1:
i think say u no day read my comments before o. where is ur virginity? I am not a je and I have told you that many times. u are only trying to drag me to their level so that u can subjugate them. your dirty old trick no work for me. cos I do not give a stupid sheet abotu what you call me. I am here to uncover dirtiness way u hide for ur old tear tear pant.
old woman way no no her age. what is ur plan for your future? no plan. how long u hope to continue this nairaland thing? pikin way dem born wen u join nairaln don start school. they can now trek to school on their own. u still day her. born one na na wah. u are busy creating mass fetus martyrs.

save the planet. Donald trump is the best thing to help our fetus and children. a dead womb cannot create a population.

a woman without husband in nigeria is a waste. if u no get husband then where is ur virginity? can we see your rape case file number in the police station? no file of rape. doctors cannot confirm medical rupture. but is gone. did it disappear?

for 14 years u day warri day hang for enerhen jinction. even all those ashewo for there don born one or two keep for house. where ur own? where u day work? way ur husband? but na techno u day use. old girl still settles for techno after school and service. omashe oh. minion yakpa.

typical Jw response

Killer of fetuses will never go unpinished. you will suffer for those martyrs. sinc eu have come here after graduating at old age. body no toch u make u help ur parents and make u relieve the old man way deprive him family of his earnings to pay for ur school. u feel that the ointment lubed tohto is ur entiltment? tohto way no day produce liquid again no deserve any entitlement outside marriage oh. do u know how much that man spent on those oil?

dear ol'hag, I am here for you. and u will keep getting it raw and well served. old wrinkled laps will required children at old age. what will u do when u are old? no pension for nairaland oh. go and marry. ur bad behaviour is not wife-able. your read bible to win arguments not to learn about God. u just come here to flex muscle with jw that is it. u are pained that i am standing up against u here when I am supposed to join u to fight the jw. i will never stand with you come what may. youuare a devil's advocate. a born again demon.

nothing makes u a christian. naatin. old graduate without a job, without a husband and pikin. but the olhag has a ruptured womb. tampered with all sort of pills and hand and steels. wide old hoe

Salvation102:
typical Jw response

kolawoleibukun1:
Killer of fetuses will never go unpinished. you will suffer for those martyrs. sinc eu have come here after graduating at old age. body no toch u make u help ur parents and make u relieve the old man way deprive him family of his earnings to pay for ur school. u feel that the ointment lubed tohto is ur entiltment? tohto way no day produce liquid again no deserve any entitlement outside marriage oh. do u know how much that man spent on those oil?

dear ol'hag, I am here for you. and u will keep getting it raw and well served. old wrinkled laps will required children at old age. what will u do when u are old? no pension for nairaland oh. go and marry. ur bad behaviour is not wife-able. your read bible to win arguments not to learn about God. u just come here to flex muscle with jw that is it. u are pained that i am standing up against u here when I am supposed to join u to fight the jw. i will never stand with you come what may. youuare a devil's advocate. a born again demon.

nothing makes u a christian. naatin. old graduate without a job, without a husband and pikin. but the olhag has a ruptured womb. tampered with all sort of pills and hand and steels. wide old hoe

just tell a Jw member the truth, and what you will get next is what dis dude is displaying here. Very bad corrupting religion. Many of his kind exist on dis forum

Idontbilivit

na so. u day try to force me to accept to be jw by all means. heheh.

I am not a JW and will never be but I will never be ur church member equally. everybody for nairaland know me well well. I am probible but antireligion. i attack christians and muslims equally. if you like say all the nonsense in your dirty old poo.c i still dont care. u are an old graduate who graduated in old age. u live in a squalid in warri. you have been livin gin warri for 14 years. u did yoru NYSC on nairaland when ur mates were busy making money during nysc. u spent all your time here arguing and forgetting tha u are a woman. u have been here since 2013.

the worst comment u made was saying that a 13 year old enjoyed rape. that was very bad. i cannot imagine a woman with womb to say that. how could u? who enjoys rape? a small innocent girl was had an intruder come in you claimed that she enjoyed the rape when the man threatened to kill her if she told anyone. she may not be smart and u do not know her upbringing if she has a relationship with her mother to be able to open up to her. but for you to say that she enjoyed it becos she did not report immediately shows ur level of diabolic spirit.

anyone who opposed u is termed a jw. you are just a racist and an intolerant hag suffering from bipolar. i dont care what jw did to u but if you have any scores to settle with them go and do it privately. do not drag nairaland into your dirty mess. we are not interested in your bad behaviour. u have been insulting people on other threads and u report anyone who insults u.

u asked me to join you to attack the jw and i refused therefore i am being called a jw. not everyone shares ur racist viewpoint. i want to be neutralso that i can be free to speak my mind as i want. i live in a free society and I will no go that low with you. i am not your level at all. you are just old and lonely. the jw u are insulting are only keeping u company. cos u are lonely adn bored. no one care about phorking your old wrinkled tohto. na only old married men way day sneak u in side cheap old hotel for warri. ur cum full every cheap hotel for warri. u no day shame. at ur age no hubsnad no pikin no work no hope. na nairaland be yoru hope for life. olshi

Salvation102:
just tell a Jw member the truth, and what you will get next is what dis dude is displaying here. Very bad corrupting religion. Many of his kind exist on dis forum

kolawoleibukun1:
na so. u day try to force me to accept to be jw by all means. heheh.

I am not a JW and will never be but I will never be ur church member equally. everybody for nairaland know me well well. I am probible but antireligion. i attack christians and muslims equally. if you like say all the nonsense in your dirty old poo.c i still dont care. u are an old graduate who graduated in old age. u live in a squalid in warri. you have been livin gin warri for 14 years. u did yoru NYSC on nairaland when ur mates were busy making money during nysc. u spent all your time here arguing and forgetting tha u are a woman. u have been here since 2013.

the worst comment u made was saying that a 13 year old enjoyed rape. that was very bad. i cannot imagine a woman with womb to say that. how could u? who enjoys rape? a small innocent girl was had an intruder come in you claimed that she enjoyed the rape when the man threatened to kill her if she told anyone. she may not be smart and u do not know her upbringing if she has a relationship with her mother to be able to open up to her. but for you to say that she enjoyed it becos she did not report immediately shows ur level of diabolic spirit.

anyone who opposed u is termed a jw. you are just a racist and an intolerant hag suffering from bipolar. i dont care what jw did to u but if you have any scores to settle with them go and do it privately. do not drag nairaland into your dirty mess. we are not interested in your bad behaviour. u have been insulting people on other threads and u report anyone who insults u.

u asked me to join you to attack the jw and i refused therefore i am being called a jw. not everyone shares ur racist viewpoint. i want to be neutralso that i can be free to speak my mind as i want. i live in a free society and I will no go that low with you. i am not your level at all. you are just old and lonely. the jw u are insulting are only keeping u company. cos u are lonely adn bored. no one care about phorking your old wrinkled tohto. na only old married men way day sneak u in side cheap old hotel for warri. ur cum full every cheap hotel for warri. u no day shame. at ur age no hubsnad no pikin no work no hope. na nairaland be yoru hope for life. olshi

u r Jw, ur religious stance based on all the topics u av created on dis forum with ur kolawoleibuku muniker points to that fact, secondly where did we meet and what was I doing? I was disproving Jw fallacy on a Jw thread before you started raining insults on me. You are so ashamed of ur actions right now and that is why u r trying to dissociate ursef from your organization but we know better ok?

Salvation102 what do you hope to achieve by constantly creating threads like this. What's your end game

spartan117:
Salvation102 what do you hope to achieve by constantly creating threads like this. What's your end game

tell that to Jw members eg kolawoleibukun1 and unbitchable

Salvation102:
tell that to Jw members eg kolawoleibukun1 and unbitchable

I asked a simple honest question in my initial post. What is your response?

spartan117:

I asked a simple honest question in my initial post. What is your response?

i do not owe u any.

Salvation102:
i do not owe u any.

Alright carry on with your life!

hehehe come and face me no day hide under jw. olodo way no sabi spell moniker. she say na muniker. olodo. old graduate. night school graduate way serve for nairaland.
come out and face me like an old hag that u are. notin in u ressemble womanhood. old abortionist way day support rape of teenage girls. u say teenage girls enjoyd being raped. very despicable and fiilthy animal

Salvation102:
tell that to Jw members eg kolawoleibukun1 and unbitchable