A pupil at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Elementary School in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, told his mother he saw the device on the ceiling above a urinal.
After a pupil at St. Elizabeth Seton Catholic Elementary School in Newmarket, Ontario, Canada, discovered a fake camera installed in a bathroom, a Canadian education authority has launched an investigation, according to CTV News Toronto.
The York Catholic District School Board , which oversees the school, said in a statement provided to CTV News that the school board had installed the cameras to combat"inappropriate behaviors causing unsafe and unhygienic conditions in the boys' washroom."Worried about student wellbeing, staff tried to tackle the situation but"were unsuccessful in changing student behavior," according to the YCDSB statement.
YCDSB director of education Ab Falconi said, according to CTV News:"When this was brought to my attention late yesterday, I immediately instructed staff to conduct an internal investigation in order to ensure that nothing like this happens again," adding,"Using fake cameras is not acceptable."After the student found the camera he notified his mother, who did not want to be named and did not initially believe her son.
Earlier this month, a former fifth-grade teacher in New Jersey was jailed for 18 years for secretly filming children in a summer theater camp bathroom.an underage boy in a bathroom at camp where he had been a stage manager. He admitted misconduct, manufacturing child pornography and distribution of 25 or more files of child pornography.
Also this month, a man who worked for an elementary school in Texas was arrested after police found aPolice said he had put the small device beneath a toilet paper dispenser in a restroom at Northside Elementary School.
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