A personal Poughkeepsie college failed to guard college students from a confessed sex-addicted classmate who allegedly positioned peeping-tom cameras in campus loos, a brand new lawsuit claims.
Former Marist College scholar Kyle Petrozzi, 23, was indicted final yr on 16 felony prices for allegedly putting in a number of surveillance cameras in a serious campus corridor’s unisex loos, based on Dutchess County officers.
Petrozzi, then a senior, was expelled when the cameras have been found in Could 2025 — however the go well with filed Thursday accuses Marist of failing to correctly “examine and keep” the loos, permitting the accused creep to maintain them rolling.
“I used to be recorded utilizing the lavatory in a spot that I trusted and the place I felt protected,” stated the alleged sufferer, who filed the Westchester County Supreme Courtroom declare as a Jane Doe.
“This incident has made me very anxious and has taken an enormous emotional toll,” she stated. “Nobody deserves this.”
Marist — which has over 3,300 undergrad college students and prices $72,000 a yr for tuition, meals and housing — failed to find the cameras for not less than two weeks as a number of folks’s non-public moments have been recorded, the go well with alleges.
“Attributable to defendant Marist’s failure to adequately keep their restrooms, plaintiff and the category members have been seen, photographed, and/or recorded,” the go well with claims.
Doe is the one alleged sufferer concerned within the class motion go well with at the moment, however her attorneys estimated that as much as 80 folks might have been recorded with out their consent.
“The unlawful recordings perpetrated by a Marist scholar on Marist’s campus towards different Marist college students is a travesty that by no means ought to have occurred,” claimed her lawyer, Nathan E. Werksman.
It’s unclear what occurred to the footage, Werksman stated, including that extra particulars will emerge because the felony proceedings transfer ahead.
Petrozzi, 23, is accused of taping the cameras to an uncovered pipe underneath sinks contained in the restroom at Marist’s Dyson Corridor — affording an ideal view of the bathroom, Werksman stated.
However the alleged tradecraft was found when a lady kneeled down to choose up her dropped telephone, and got here nose to nose with a hidden digicam, based on Werksman, citing prosecutors — who didn’t return The Publish’s requests for remark Thursday.
Marist advised The Publish that the college instantly took motion when the cameras have been discovered, and labored intently with investigators.
“Marist is actively reviewing the lawsuit and has remained targeted on supporting any particular person who might have been impacted,” stated college spokesman Anthony Proia.
Petrozzi’s lawyer, Richard Portale, stated his shopper “has suffered since childhood from a major historical past of Crohn’s illness and a studying incapacity for which he was chronically self medicating on the time.”
“He has and can proceed to simply accept duty by persevering with to interact in intensive therapy which started instantly upon surrendering himself to authorities,” Portale stated in an announcement.
“We ask for area for the authorized and therapeutic processes to maneuver ahead, and for the ladies impacted to proceed receiving the respect and help they deserve.”
