A teacher has admitted filming in a Mount Maunganui early childhood centre bathroom but has kept his name secret for now.<\/p>\n
The 53-year-old man appeared in Tauranga District Court today where he pleaded guilty to a total of 22 charges of intentionally making intimate visual recordings of other people.<\/p>\n
The maximum penalty he faces is three years in prison.<\/p>\n
The man appeared before District Court Judge William Lawson, who granted continued interim name suppression until his sentencing in March. <\/p>\n
The charges relate to offending on a range of dates, the earliest being “on or before June 19, 2025”, while the most recent was in June of this year.<\/p>\n
Police earlier confirmed a recording device was located in the staff bathroom at an early childcare education facility on June 30.<\/p>\n
“No children have been identified in any of the recordings,” Detective Senior Sergeant Natalie Flowerdew-Brown said at the time.<\/p>\n
A spokesperson for the kindergarten today told 1News the \u201csafety and trust of our tamariki, wh\u0101nau and staff is our highest priority\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe offending represented a significant betrayal of the trust and privacy of the victims and also of those in the community,\u201d they said in a statement.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt has been highly distressing for many people and the impacts are continuing to be felt as the matter progresses before the court.\u201d<\/p>\n
Family of children at the kindergarten were emailed by the principal in July, explaining that the full-time teacher – who at the time did not have name suppression – had been arrested by police.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can advise that all appropriate safety checking, including regular police vetting of [the teacher] was undertaken,\u201d the letter read, as seen by 1News.<\/p>\n
The man\u2019s employment was terminated shortly after he was arrested and charged. <\/p>\n
He will appear back in Tauranga District Court on March 25 for sentencing. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A teacher has admitted filming in a Mount Maunganui early childhood centre bathroom but has kept his name…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643832,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[67,42,43,1756,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-643831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-crime-and-justice","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-tauranga-bay-of-plenty","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643831","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=643831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643831\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}