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Wisconsin Accountant Charged With Being A Peeping Tom

By Chuck Sudo in News on Oct 5, 2012 4:00PM

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Photo credit: Milwaukee County Sheriff's office

An employee at a Wisconsin accounting firm has been charged with filming women using the bathroom at his job.

James Franc Pirc of Menomonee Falls, Wisc. was charged Sept. 28 with four counts of capturing an image of nudity without consent. Several women told police they saw a camera pen slide underneath the door to the bathroom in September.

Police executed a search warrant on Pirc’s home and found a camera pen with four videos of women using the bathroom. In the criminal complaint obtained by Menomonee Falls Patch, Pirc admitted to using the pen “for inappropriate things” and filmed women 15 times over a nine month period, that the camera filmed in color “depending on which way they stood, but it would show their butt and front private area.” He said he was tempted to use the camera in this manner, but eventually his conscience got the best of him.

Pirc was a vice president at Bristol & Company, a local accounting form. The company wouldn’t confirm to the New York Daily News whether Pirc was still employed there. A LinkedIN profile for Pirc was removed from that website.