A University of Victoria student is suing a B.C. government employee for allegedly using a hidden camera to film her undressing, showering and using the toilet while she was living in his basement suite.
The footage was later edited into a series of collages and posted on the internet for profit, according to the claim filed in B.C. Supreme Court this week on behalf of education student Devon Harrington.
Harrington says she was filmed numerous times after moving below Robin Mitchell and his wife Judy in Aug. 1, 2008, but doesn't know when the camera would have been covertly installed in the suite.
She says she discovered the device on March 11, 2011 and moved out immediately.
Harrington, who paid $675 a month in rent, says the recordings also show her "attending to personal hygiene" and were both used for sexual gratification and shared with friends of the defendant.
The videos were also reproduced both on and off the internet, according to the claim.
Harrington says she has suffered ongoing emotional trauma including humiliation, anxiety and depression. She is seeking the return of $15,725 she paid in rent on top of various damages and moving costs.
Mitchell is identified in the claim as a senior application architect for the provincial government. His wife is named in the suit because Harrington claims she "either knew or ought to have known" the recordings were being made.
None of the allegations has been proven in court.
A call to the couple's home Friday morning was answered, then disconnected.
