Casper Desfeux, a 21 year old Yale University student who plead guilty to showing four roommates a tape of himself having sex with his then girlfriend, will spend the next two years on probation as ordered by New Haven Superior Court Judge Philip A. Scarpellino.
The probation that Desfeux is on is called accelerated rehabilitation, for 1st time offenders. If Desfeux (or any other offender) completes two years of this sentence, the charges will be dismissed. Scarpellino denounced Desfeux's conduct.
"I think you should be ashamed of yourself. In this day and age when we're fighting for our privacy with cameras displayed everywhere, we don't need them in places where they shouldn't appear."
In sworn testimony Friday, Desfeux said he showed the video only to his four roommates and did not distribute it on the Internet. His attorney, William F. Dow III, said the incident was "an error of judgment by two young people."
Prosecutor David Strollo said the victim consented to Desfeux's receiving accelerated rehabilitation as long as he complied with a list of 13 conditions, including that she receive the sole copy of the video.Another condition allows Desfeux to get his computer back as long as any trace of the video is erased from the computer's hard drive. Desfeux told authorities he had schoolwork stored on the computer that he needed. "No evidence of the video shall ever be viewed again," Strollo said.
Desfeux has not been taking classes ever since the incident last fall. The woman learned about the voyeurism from one of his roommates.
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His conviction was received with shocks in Denmark because it is normal custom that males keep something from the women that they are with.
It is not odd that his case is registered on the webpage containing cases where Danes have been exposed of xenophobia abroad.
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