Record Teacher's Body Parts In Meeting Room To Toilet, Former Principal Imprisoned For 2 Years

JAKARTA - A former primary school principal was sentenced to two years in prison last Friday on charges of installing spy cameras inside schools, including female teachers' toilets and secretly filming their body parts.

A 57-year-old former principal at a school in Anyang, 23 kilometers south of Seoul, South Korea is suspected of installing a small camera inside a tissue box in a restroom in late October, to secretly film a woman while serving as principal.

The charges against him also include placing a cell phone under a conference table with a camera 21 times between June and October last year, secretly filming the teacher's body parts.

A teacher saw and reported the camera in the women's restroom to the school. The police who were sent to the school later found several video clips of the victim's body parts and still images on the principal's cellphone.

Inevitably, he admitted to all the charges in the previous trial. He was dismissed from his post by the Gyeonggi Provincial Education Office last year.

"The defendant entered the restroom and set up a camera to satisfy his sexual desire. The seriousness of this crime is not light," the judge at the local court in Anyang said in his ruling, reported the Korea Times February 18.

"As the principal, he betrayed the trust of teachers and students and even destroyed evidence to cover up his crimes after they were exposed," the judge said.