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An angry mother is demanding that retail chain Target improve its store security after a man filmed her daughter in a unisex changing room.
The 17-year-old daughter was trying on swimsuits in what she thought was a private, secure dressing room in the Target store.
Then she noticed the camera.
Target has been resolute in its compliance with the LGBTQIA+-trans movement demands, creating an environment in which such things happen, using stockholders' money.
Be informed, not misled.
The incident happened at a Target store located in Swansea, Massachusetts.
According to NBC 10 Boston, authorities have arrested and charged John Williams, 25, for filming the teen with his cell phone while she was nude in a changing room.
NBC reported, "Swansea police say John Williams used his cell phone to film a 17-year-old girl who was nude while changing in the Target fitting room."
According to police, officers first responded to the Target located at 579 Grand Army of the Republic Highway around 8 p.m. Monday after they received a report that a 17-year-old girl had been filmed while changing in the store.
Through an investigation, police determined that a man had used his cell phone to film the girl, who was nude while changing clothes in the fitting room.
Police shared surveillance images of the suspect as they sought his identity. They found that he left Target in a vehicle, which was later found to belong to Williams' aunt, the Bristol County District Attorney's Office said.
They say, "As police were invited into the home by the aunt, she indicated that the defendant was in the bathroom. Prosecutors said officers heard Williams using hair clippers in the bathroom and found that he had changed his appearance.
Williams' cellphone was seized as evidence when he was arrested, police said.
Mom is not happy.
The teen’s mother was interviewed by American Family News. She says her daughter was trying on bathing suits when she noticed something on the floor. "What it turned out to be", she says, "was a cell phone that had been placed there to film her inside the dressing room."
“When she went to kick the camera, she saw herself on it. She saw her foot go to kick it, and she saw her body on it,” the mother recalls. “And as she saw that, she saw this person take the phone away."
The mother told AFN she wants to be referred to simply as “Sandra” for this article. The teenager is not being identified because she is a minor.
According to Sandra, Target didn't even have a store employee working in the area. "That is a serious safety mistake," she says.
Sandra describes her daughter as an innocent teenager who has never had a boyfriend or kissed a boy, and now she must worry if the video will find its way onto the Internet.
This is not isolated.
A few months ago, we learned that a "Target employee was caught filming 12-year-old girls in a dressing room. This has happened repeatedly since they have taken a deep dive into the cesspool of the demands of the 'trans" movement.
On May 17, 2016---nine years ago almost to the day, the Christian Post published this:
The American Family Association has compiled a list of 10 cases to showcase why Target's bathroom policies that allow male customers who identify as female to go into women's bathrooms and dressing rooms are dangerous to women and children.
"The overwhelming evidence continues to pile up against Target's policy to allow men into women's restrooms and dressing rooms in its stores," AFA President Tim Wildmon wrote on Thursday.
Target has defended its decision by stating: "We welcome transgender team members and guests to use the restroom or fitting room facility that corresponds with their gender identity. ... Everyone deserves to feel like they belong."
Everyone deserves to feel like they belong?
Do these 12 to 17-year-old girls feel like they belong?
If your daughter or granddaughter were exploited like this, would you feel like they belonged in a Target store? Of course not.
Nine years ago, when the Christian Post article was published, American Family listed 10 cases that occurred over the past year of men found recording, taking photos, or peering into women's restrooms at Target stores nationwide:
- Man wanted for taking photos inside the Target changing room
- Transgender woman caught filming in Target changing room
- Man seen reaching under stall with phone in Target dressing room
- Peeping Tom' reported in Target dressing room
- Teen girl reports dressing room peeper at Target
- Police Looking for Target Peeper
- Target Peeping Tom pleads guilty
- Man Arrested for Taking Photos of Woman in Target Bathroom
- Peeping Tom caught filming women in the Brentwood Target dressing rooms
- 'Peeping Tom' took pics of people in the Target bathroom
Interestingly, in reviewing these and other similar stories, I found that many of the stories had been scrubbed from Google. Only the headline remains.
The mom of the 17-year-old says, "I was mad. I was fuming. They're just making it so simple and so easy for predators to victimize young women, or men, whoever.”
Indeed, they are.
Takeaway
Target is becoming more known for its delinquent behavior of young people than for its family-friendly environment.
The New York Post reports, "A Brooklyn Target has banned kids under 18 from shopping at the store without adult supervision — just the latest business in the area using drastic measures to curb delinquent behavior."
A store worker told the Post that Target—located in the Triangle Junction mall on the corner of Flatbush Avenue and Avenue H—recently began posting security guards at its front doors and carding anybody who doesn’t look of age.
A sign outside the door reads, “All guests under the age of 18 must be accompanied by an adult at this Target store. "
A Target guard told the New York Post that the problem has more to do with delinquency, general delinquent behavior, and loitering than it does with theft.
In addition to all this, Target is facing financial headwinds due to declining sales, increased competition, and consumer backlash related to their handling of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives. The company has seen a decrease in sales and foot traffic, as well as a drop in its stock price.
I'm reminded of the words of the Prophet Hosea (8:7):
For they have sown the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind: it hath no stalk: the bud shall yield no meal: if so be it yield, the strangers shall swallow it up.
