PORT ORCHARD — A 21-year-old Peeping Tom caught by his Port Orchard police sergeant mother who had responded to the 911 call pleaded guilty to reduced charges and was sentenced Monday to 2 ½ months in jail.

The woman repeatedly targeted at her home by Connor Michael Main, 21, believes Main should have been prosecuted for a felony sex crime. Main went to the residence three times, bringing a ladder to spy on her when she was undressed. She feels that authorities sided with the perpetrator.

“The biggest thing this whole case has said to me is that he is the victim, and what happened to me doesn’t matter because I’m worthless,” the woman told the Kitsap Sun. She is not being identified because she is the victim of a sex crime.

Though charging documents do not identify Port Orchard Police Sgt. Donna Main as Connor Main’s mother, they do say she was called to the house Feb. 7, 2019, after the woman’s husband chased Connor Main away and into nearby woods.

After arriving at the scene Sgt. Main recognized the suspect's truck as the same one that her son drove. Police called him on his phone while he was hiding in the woods and then arrested him.

The Port Orchard Police Department investigated the case, assigning a detective in the small department to investigate the son of a supervisor.

Chief Matt Brown, who was hired to run the department after former Chief Geoffrey Marti retired in the summer of 2019, was not at the department at the time. He didn’t know if any steps were taken to ensure the integrity of the investigation, but he said he imagined there were.

“We do our best to do what’s right and appropriate,” Brown said.

Sgt. Main declined to comment for this story. When the Kitsap Sun asked Connor Main if he wanted to comment, Sgt. Main spoke for him and declined on his behalf.

If convicted of first-degree voyeurism, Connor Main would have been required to register as a sex offender. Under the plea deal, he will not be required to register, a burden that his attorney, Jonathan Morrison, told Kitsap County Superior Court Judge Sally Olsen would have been “devastating” for the 21-year-old.

Instead, Connor Main pleaded guilty to a count of attempted residential burglary, a felony, and two counts of misdemeanor voyeurism. As part of the plea deal, he will have to undergo a psychosexual evaluation and comply with treatment recommendations. For two years Judge Olsen will have supervision over the case and can send Connor Main to jail if he does not follow her order. However, Olsen told him she believes he will comply.

After reviewing the proposal, Olsen told Connor Main the plea deal was “Quite a benefit to you, sir.”

Connor Main was not taken into custody following his sentencing and was allowed to report to the Kitsap County Jail on April 8.

Prosecutor Chad Enright — who personally charged Connor Main with first-degree voyeurism — said the plea deal was appropriate because it resulted in the likelihood of more jail time.

The plea deal came in part because of Connor Main’s age and his lack of a criminal record, according to court documents.

“What we give up is requiring registration as a sex offender, what we get is more time in jail,” Enright said. He also noted the court supervision as a benefit of the deal.

Further, he said he did not see the investigation by Sgt. Main’s department as missing anything critical.

Enright shared documents not included in the public court file that said when he was caught, Connor Main initially refused to make a statement to the officer. Sgt. Main learned this and demanded her son “take accountability.” Hearing this from his mother, Connor Main reversed himself and agreed to speak with an officer.

However, according to the charging document, Connor Main told the officer he first became interested in spying on the woman the day before he was caught, Feb. 6, 2019, and he “didn’t see anything.” He said he was driving on the road and saw she was naked.

Footage from security cameras at the home show Connor Main first went to the house and looked in the windows on Feb. 3, 2019, according to information provided by the victims.

The video shows Connor Main returning on Feb. 6, 2019, with a ladder and taking photos with his phone — waiting by a window for 20 minutes while looking into the master bedroom.

Connor Main came back again the next night, at which time the husband chased him into the woods and his mother was called to the scene.

Sgt. Main read a letter to Judge Olsen saying her son was kind-hearted and compassionate and did not pose a further threat to his victims.

“He is not a monster, he is not a sexual predator,” Donna Main said.

The woman Connor Main spied on refused to come to court, saying she had never seen Connor Main and did not want to.

“That would be pretty traumatic for me,” she said.

Her husband, however, told Judge Olsen that Connor Main had shattered his family’s sense of security. As a Navy submariner, he spends long periods away from home and now worries more about his family’s safety.

“With predators like the defendant out there I can’t claim that my family is ever safe,” the husband wrote in a letter to the court.

He also took exception to comments made by officials during the case, where Connor Main was repeatedly referred to as a “stupid kid” who made a “mistake.”

The husband said the facts show Connor Main knew what he was doing and his behavior was escalating, demonstrated by repeatedly going to the property and bringing with him a ladder.

“A ‘stupid kid’ does not show up three times,” the man said. “A ‘stupid kid’ gets a picture and walks away.”

After pleading guilty Wednesday, Connor Main apologized to the family and said in the year it took the case to resolve he spent time reflecting.

“I’m a better person today than I was a year ago,” he said.