A Northland teacher has been sentenced to home detention after using his cellphone to film women in a bathroom and teenage girls in a public changing room.
Reagan Clive Hills, of Kawakawa, appeared in the Kaikohe District Court yesterday for sentencing on four charges - three intentional and one reckless - of making an intimate visual recording.
Hills was a teacher and sports coach at Bay of Islands College in Kawakawa, but lost his job when the offending was discovered in August last year.
The court was told two teenage girls using the changing room showers at a public pool noticed a cellphone on a high ledge. They used a towel to knock the phone down and found it was recording video.
There were three clips on the phone, ranging in length from 15 to about 90 seconds, showing girls in their togs or underwear rinsing themselves.