Women sue B.C. grocery store over intimate photos allegedly taken in washroom
VICTORIA — Two former employees are suing a grocery store on Vancouver Island, alleging another worker surreptitiously took intimate photos of them and posted them online without consent.
Jennifer Burke and Mallory Colter filed a proposed class-action lawsuit this week against Red Barn Markets and former assistant manager Matthew Schwabe, alleging he installed a video recording device in the washroom of the chain’s location in Saanich between 2009 and 2014.
The notice of civil claim alleges that intimate images taken in the washroom were uploaded online, including to “one Russian website marketed as a ‘revenge pornographic website.’ ”
Screenshots from the women’s Facebook pages were paired with the images “so that viewers of the website could identify the young women,” the notice of civil claim alleges.