Supreme Court looks at definition of voyeurism

A children’s hockey coach who was ostracized as a sex offender, deprived of work, beaten up in jail and placed in protective custody asked the Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday to consider whether taking secret photos in a dressing room always amounts to the sex crime of voyeurism.

Mr. Rankin replied that if the photos were taken surreptitiously, the photographer would be committing the sex crime of voyeurism. “Why would Parliament want to have people who … did not do anything of a sexual nature found to have committed a sexual offence?” he asked the court. “This man has been branded a sex offender” by the RCMP, Mr. Sorochan told the Supreme Court. “And the general public is still treating him as a sex offender. … If it doesn’t have something sexual why is it in the sexual offences section? Why does it have a five-year maximum penalty?”

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