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Vancouver Island University has found itself embroiled in a human rights complaint over an adult male student who favoured diapers, the writings of Beatrix Potter and baby talk.

The human rights complaint was filed by Katrin Roth, VIU’s former director of human rights and workplace safety.

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In it, she alleges the Nanaimo university failed to adequately support and protect professors, staff and students who were threatened by the middle-age man’s infantilist sexual fetishes.

One woman became so concerned she had her husband accompany her to a night class.

Another became frightened because it became obvious the man was watching her come and go from the university.

The Times Colonist is not identifying the man, but has reached out to him for comment.

The man’s alleged behaviour is chronicled in a 105-page complaint to the B.C. Human Rights Tribunal.

The case is about his behaviour, the imposition of his fetish on non-consenting women

In 2015, the complaint says, the man submitted as part of an English essay a photo of himself partially nude, save for a diaper. In the picture, he is pointing to a dirty diaper.