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An employee of a Hunter aged care facility has been convicted of filming the genitalia of patients as old as 90. Peter Johnson, of Lorn, was sentenced to a three-year good behaviour bond after he pleaded guilty to five counts of filming a person’s ­private parts without consent in the aged care facility and gym. Johnson, 34, was caught filming a man showering in the cubical next to him at a Maitland gym about 9.30am on January 2. The man grabbed the iPod from Johnson’s hand as he reached over the partition to film him. He followed Johnson who ran into the change room and asked for the iPod. The man reported the matter to staff and police who used CCTV to identify Johnson leaving the gym. Police seized an iPod, iPad, a laptop, USB devices and a personal computer during a search of Johnson’s Allan Street home later that day. Johnson attended Maitland police station about 6pm where he was ­arrested and interviewed over a number of videos found on his iPod. He admitted to filming himself change and rub ointment onto a partially blind 80-year-old man who was a patient in the high dependency section of an aged care facility where he worked. Another video recording showed Johnson showering a man in his early 90s. Police found a number of other videos of men showering at the gym where Johnson was a member. Court documents said he used his iPod to film the men through cracks in cubical doors and partitions. He told police he also filmed men’s genitalia while standing at a urinal. Johnson said he liked to peep and did not know why he did it. The offences occurred between 2013 and 2014. Under the terms of his three-year bond Johnson must comply with the treatment of a psychiatrist, psychotherapist and general practitioner.

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