A transgender woman, 43-year-old Shauna Patricia Smith has been accused
of taking photos of another woman while she was changing clothes inside a
dressing room at a Target store in southeast Idaho.
The Bonnevile County Sheriff’s Office said that Smith is in custody on a
felony video voyeurism charge.
Police
said, on Monday, an 18 year old woman saw someone taking pictures of her
while she was inside a changing room at the Target in Ammon.
“The victim noticed the subject reaching over the wall of the changing
room with a cell phone taking pictures,” police wrote in a news release.
Smith allegedly held her iPhone above her changing stall to record
her,The suspect ran out of the store after being confronted by the woman
and her mother.
Police interviewed witnesses and watched video surveillance of the
store, which led them Smith, who identifies as a transgender woman.
After being interviewed by detectives, Smith admitted to making other
videos at Target and that she makes videos doe ‘the same reason men look
at Pornography’. Police arrested Smith and took her into custody.
She had her first court appearance on Wednesday.
In April, Target encouraged transgender people to use the bathrooms and
changing rooms according to the gender they identify with.
Source: Abc 10 news