A Florida man has pleaded responsible to voyeurism prices relationship again to the time he served as head monk at a Cape Breton Buddhist monastery.
Jack Hillie is accused of observing or recording an individual in a circumstance the place they’ve an affordable expectation of privateness, between December 2020 and November 2021, when he was head monk at Gampo Abbey monastery, in Pleasant Bay, N.S.
He entered his responsible plea by way of video name in Port Hawkesbury provincial courtroom earlier this week, however he’ll attend his sentencing in particular person on Nov. 7.
In a civil lawsuit filed final month in Nova Scotia Supreme Court, Christopher Longoria of Texas alleges he was secretly filmed whereas having a shower in November 2021 at Gampo Abbey.
The civil swimsuit claims that Hillie allegedly put in a video digicam in a communal bathe and that the monastery was negligent in failing to guard the privateness of its residents.
Longoria’s Halifax-based lawyer, Basia Sawinski, mentioned in June that different complainants could come ahead.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed July 5, 2023.
