{"id":588737,"date":"2026-09-03T08:54:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:54:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588737\/"},"modified":"2026-09-03T08:54:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T08:54:09","slug":"teacher-in-court-charged-with-filming-in-kindergarten-bathroom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/588737\/","title":{"rendered":"Teacher in court charged with filming in kindergarten bathroom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  [&amp;_p]:tit-sub-xl tit-sub-xl md:[&amp;_p]:d-tit-sub-xl md:d-tit-sub-xl mb-[1.3rem]\">A teacher accused of filming in a Mount Maunganui early childhood centre bathroom has appeared in Tauranga District Court today, where he was granted continued interim name suppression and remanded without plea. <\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 53-year-old man is facing a total of 22 charges of intentionally making intimate visual recordings of other people.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The maximum penalty is three years&#8217; imprisonment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The man appeared before Tauranga community magistrate Sherida Cooper, who granted continued interim name suppression until his next appearance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Lawyer Xu Wang, who is representing the teacher, asked that he continue to be remanded without plea, which was allowed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The 22 charges related to a range of dates of alleged offending, the earliest being &#8220;on or before June 19, 2025&#8221;, while the most recent was in June of this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">Police confirmed to 1News a recording device was located in the staff bathroom at an early childcare education facility on June 30.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">&#8220;No children have been identified in any of the recordings,&#8221; Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"body-paragraph articleLinkText  lg mb-4\">The man will appear back in Tauranga District Court on October 28, where he is expected to enter a plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher accused of filming in a Mount Maunganui early childhood centre bathroom has appeared in Tauranga District&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":588738,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[67,111,43,139,69,1756],"class_list":["post-588737","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588737","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=588737"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/588737\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/588738"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=588737"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=588737"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=588737"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}