A 69-year-old Macau man has been accused of surreptitiously recording his domestic helper while she used the bathroom, the Public Security Police Force (PSP) said during the joint police press conference yesterday.
The senior local man employed a domestic helper, a Filipino woman in her 30s, for five years. The victim does not live with her employer, who is currently residing with his wife.
The victim reported the case to the police authority on August 14, the same day she claims she spotted the recording device. The camera was hidden inside a bag which covered the body of the device but left a hole allowing the camera to clearly record everything that went on in the bathroom. Upon spotting the device, she immediately visited the building’s property management company to report the situation.
Later, with the company of the property management staff, the victim reported the case to the police authority.
When PSP officers went to the man’s house, he was alone. The officers searched the bathroom, where they found and seized the camera. Confronted at this moment, the suspect denied the accusations.
Police officers found no recorded footage on the camera. However, they found a memory card in the man’s pocket. On the memory card were two recordings, one 36 seconds long and another 12 minutes and six seconds long. Both were timestamped July 27. The recordings clearly showed the victim engaging in private bathroom-related activities.
Following police interrogation, the suspect continued to claim innocence. He admitted that he set up the camera, but not for any malicious reason. The man claimed that he had installed the camera in the house to ensure the quality of the domestic employee’s work.
However, his reasoning did not convince the PSP investigators, as the officers did not find recording or surveillance devices anywhere else besides the bathroom.
Considering the evidence that the victim’s privacy had been violated, the police forwarded the man to the prosecution authority on August 15.
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