Teen finds cell phone recording video of her in bathroom: 'The scariest thing that’s ever happened to me'
A Michigan teenager went to the police after finding a cell phone recording video of her in the bathroom of her driver’s training school on Wednesday.
“It was probably the scariest thing that’s ever happened to me,” Kendall Binfet, 14, told Detroit, Mich., broadcast station WXYZ-TV.
The high school freshman saw the phone, which was covered in toilet paper except for a hole over the camera lens when she went into the driving school’s unisex bathroom. She told WXYZ-TV that she picked it up, saw that it was recording and deleted the video.
When she got back to her seat, she texted her twin sister, Riley, and two other girls in the driving class at Courtesy Driving School about the cell phone she found. She then reported the incident to the Shelby Township Police Department.
There are plenty of unisex bathrooms. We have one at work the unisex bathroom has nothing to do with a creep that did this.
— Carol Ford (@cbford47) April 4, 2019
A boy in the class who went to the bathroom before Binfet is suspected of placing the phone there, police said. He was kicked out of the driving class, but WXYZ-TV reports he hasn’t yet been charged with a crime. Yahoo Lifestyle has reached out to the Shelby Township police for comment.
“Who knows what he would have done with that video,” Binfet told WXYZ-TV. “I mean, it could have gone out and it could have been sold somewhere and I would just not want my privacy to be invaded like that.”
Many local residents who saw the story on social media were outraged, though some claimed the incident highlighted why there shouldn’t be unisex bathrooms.
“What a sick thing to do,” one person commented on Facebook.
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