FBI Cops Spied On Underage Girls In Dressing Rooms

April 24. 2009

FBI Director Robert Mueller and Senator Arlen Specter

Two FBI cops have been arrested on serious invasion of privacy and voyeurism charges, accused of spying on underage girls, as they used a changing room at the mall. The girls were buying prom dresses and the cops watched via hidden camera.

This story is disgusting. To invade anyone’s privacy in this manner, let alone young girls, is reprehensible. Their parents should sue the FBI over this serious privacy breech.

FBI Workers Accused of Spying on Dressing Room

Two FBI workers are accused of using surveillance equipment to spy on teenage girls as they undressed and tried on prom gowns at a charity event at a West Virginia mall.

The FBI employees have been charged with conspiracy and committing criminal invasion of privacy. They were working in an FBI satellite control room at the mall when they positioned a camera on temporary changing rooms and zoomed in for at least 90 minutes on girls dressing for the Cinderella Project fashion show, Marion County Prosecutor Pat Wilson said Monday.

Gary Sutton Jr., 40, of New Milton and Charles Hommema of Buckhannon have been charged with the misdemeanors and face fines and up to a year in jail on each charge if convicted. Sutton has been released on bond, Wilson said, and Hommema is to be arraigned later this week. Wilson did not know Hommema's age…

"I can't even begin to put words around what I consider an unspeakable act, the misuse of surveillance by a branch of our government in a place we felt so secure," she said. "Never in a million years would we have thought something like this would happen. We're in shock."

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