South Africa: Charges over secret breast milk filming
A woman has taken a male colleague
to court in South Africa, alleging he secretly filmed her as she
expressed breast milk at her workplace.
The man, who has been
been suspended by the University of Cape Town, is alleged to have set up
a live link in a private room at the institution on 13 June.
The woman wrote in a blog she was angry that providing food for her baby was "sexualised in such a cowardly way".
The man has been charged and further investigations are being carried out.
Western
Cape police have confirmed that a case of crimen injuria - the
intentional harming of someone's dignity - is being investigated against
the 38-year old university employee.
Local media quoted the
mother sharing her "disgust" at the act. She had been in what she
thought was a "safe, locked space" expressing milk, when she noticed
that she was being filmed.
"I'm disgusted that we live in a world
where mothers, no matter how they choose to feed their children, are
victimised for being vulnerable."
There has been a global push for companies to provide special areas for women to breastfeed.
BBC
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