Woman says guy videoed her and other women - and girls - on Newbury Street, so she returns the favor

This woman now has an "exclusive" interview on the WCVB 5 news. More and more it seems like she has an agenda. Can a reality show be far behind?

I don't doubt that this guy was inappropriately filming her. I used to work at a Boston organization that seemed to be like a flame to the moths of sex offender-types, and I earned the nickname "Dateline NBC" because I had a sixth sense for catching them in the act such that we had enough evidence to give them the boot. Suffice it to say, I have a decent eye for catching these things.

I suspect this guy is guilty because he continuously engages with her, smirking when she confronts him, and even slips up by saying, "I don't need your permission legally," instead of sticking to the story that he wasn't recording her. Additionally, if he was not filming her, he would have been far more upset and threatened by her behavior, because unprovoked, that kind of behavior coming from a stranger would be terrifying. He seems to understand that she is not a random crazy person, but a person who has a reason to be acting crazy specifically directed at him.

However, that is not to say she behaved appropriately.

A better use of her time and efforts would have been to pretend she did not see him and then filming him filming others, so she would have evidence to send to the police. Sex offenders operate in the shadows: they are good at not getting caught, because they know to straddle the line between illegal and "there's a plausible explanation for this that doesn't involve me being a sex offender." They stick to that gray area where there is no proof. They are experts at making up excuses and putting victims on the defensive, accusing them of slander and threatening to sue, saying they were just scratching an itch or adjusting their pocket, you just have a personal vendetta against them or their ethnic group and misinterpreted it because of your ulterior motives.

Confronting a sex offender directly like this can get them-at best- banned from a particular establishment, but in order to get them in trouble and get them off the streets, and avoid negative consequences for yourself, you are best off quietly recording or photographing them yourself, then calling the police with a detailed description of the offender and his/her behavior from a space where it is safe to do so, offering up copies of your photos or videos of anything you witnessed.. A cop would know the correct procedure for gaining access to his phone for the proper evidence; her profanity-laced demands for his phone do nothing but encourage him to wipe his memoy, and sound like a mugging to passerby.

The male is believed to work for a mid sized construction firm in Boston. If his company ever hopes to work again on say a Children's Hospital Project they should invite the FBI to have his work computer's hard drive and access to his company email. He seems to like underage girls, He has no problem snapping pictures of adolescent girls privates on the street, what does he do in private? This kind of behavior just doesn't "happen" once, his whole demeanor was entitlement and objectification, women are not real to him. He will undoubtedly be a registered sex offender soon... jailin', then have at defending him guys. Guy was wearing his wedding band!!

This pervert who took lewd pictures of little girls has a distinct look, and that man-bag slung across his body isn't something you see too often in Boston. I'll be keeping an eye out for him -- if I caught anyone doing something similar, I would confront them as well.
I witnessed an old man taking pictures of very young girls despite the protests of their mother and alerted mall security. The whole incident turned my stomach -- the old guy ignored her, kept snapping away while following them, cackling the entire time. Disgusting.