Dude Allegedly Filming Up Woman’s Shorts On Train Cops Shaming En-Masse

Sydney woman Tegan Portener‘s video of a dude on a train filming her underneath the back of the seat has gone viral, chalking up over 5,000 shares on Facebook since she posted it on Monday.

Tegan was on a train heading towards Newcastle when the unnamed man got on at Central Station.

“He kept looking around suspiciously but I ignored it,” she wrote on Facebook. “Halfway to Newcastle I woke up from a nap with my knees up in shorts and noticed he was filming me from underneath his chair. He did it for another half hour until I finally mustered up the courage to tell him to stop.”

In the video, you can hear Portener say to the man: “Excuse me, what are you doing with your phone?” 

When he doesn’t answer, she repeats herself. 

“You keep putting it under your chair,” she says. “What are you doing with it? Why do you keep sliding it under the chair and aiming it at me?” 

The man doesn’t answer, just makes confused noises and continues to look at the camera Tegan’s holding, perhaps aware that he’s been caught (allegedly) behaving like a shitbag and will now be facing the consequences.

“I went to the front of the train and told the driver and the sitch and he contacted the police at Broadmeadow for me,” writes Tegan on Facebook. “I gave them these videos and they went through surveillance cams but couldn’t find him so the grot is still out there potentially filming other women ugh.”

In NSW, it is a general offence to film a person’s private parts for the purpose of sexual gratification without consent, which carries a maximum penalty of two years imprisonment.

A spokesperson for NSW Police confirmed to PEDESTRIAN.TV that they were aware of the incident, but were awaiting confirmation on details from the Police Transport Command. We’ll update with more as and when.

We’ve also reached out to Tegan for comment. Meanwhile, see her post in full below:

UPDATE: The man has now been arrested and charged with filming a person’s private parts without consent and offensive conduct, and his phone and hard drives have been seized. More here.