A Brentwood man who was sued after allegedly taking photos up a woman's skirt at Nordstrom Rack denies responsibility, despite admitting to taking the photos.

Houman Shirinsouei was charged with a single count of unlawful photographing in violation of privacy, a Class A misdemeanor, last December following an incident on Aug. 6, 2016, when he took photos up the skirt of a 19-year-old woman at the Nordstrom Rack in Brentwood.

The woman, identified as Jane Doe, filed a civil lawsuit against Shirinsouei and Nordstrom in Williamson County Circuit Court in July.

Shirinsouei admits in his answer that "he took a photograph of the plaintiff up her skirt without her consent."

He also admits that he "had photographs of other women taken in a similar manner," but denies that any of the photos were of minors.

He denies the lawsuit's allegations of gross negligence, assault, invasion of privacy and punitive damages.

The misdemeanor case against Shirinsouei was disposed in General Sessions court on Nov. 1 under judicial diversion. He was sentenced to supervised probation for 11 months and 29 days, ordered to continue seeing a psychologist, to have no contact with the victim and to not go into retail stores unsupervised.

He was also banned from Nordstrom Rack.

A change in Tennessee code that went into effect last year says a judge may order a person charged with unlawful photographing to register as a sex offender.

"We're pretty disappointed about the fact that he's not on the sex registry," said Jason Lee of Burrow Lee, PLLC., who's representing Jane Doe. "We're disappointed about how the statute is so minimalistic for something like this."

Shirinsouei's attorney, Cynthia Sherwood, declined to comment for this story.

Nordstrom, Inc. has also denied any wrongdoing in the civil case.

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