According to a criminal complaint, a West Allis man said he liked to watch and listen to females using the bathroom, and would spend weeks inside the opposite sex's restroom at the University of Wisconsin-Waukesha doing just that.
But late last spring, Jacob E. Laurishke, 22, was busted after he began recording a woman inside a stall in a campus bathroom, the complaint said.
Now, four months after being caught, Laurishke was charged on Sept. 21 with invasion of privacy in a public place with a person present. If convicted, Laurishke faces up to nine months in prison and $10,000 in fines.
He posted a $500 cash bond on May 6 and will make his first court appearance on Oct. 19 at the Waukesha County Courthouse.
According to the complaint, a woman, then 22, was in a public bathroom May 5 on campus and saw a black backpack on the floor in a stall. She said once she was in her stall she heard someone exit a stall and enter the stall next to her, the complaint read.
The victim in the complaint said when she was going to the bathroom she saw a device that had an orange light on and a hand on it. She believed the device was a Nintendo 3DS, which is capable of taking pictures and videos.
Laurishke told police in the complaint he had been going inside women's restrooms about two times per day for approximately three weeks at UW-Waukesha.
According to the complaint, Laurishke said this incident was the first time he had recorded a woman using the restroom with his Nintendo DS device. He also admitted to taking videos of females using the restroom at the school by setting up the camera in one of the bathrooms in a stall facing down toward the sinks.
Laurishke said he wanted to capture audio of women using the bathroom, the complaint notes. Laurishke said in the complaint he did this as "a sexual fetish."
Another woman later told police in the complaint there might have been a male in the restroom while she was using it on May 5 at UW-Waukesha. She said she saw men's shoes in the stall next to her. Police said in the complaint the description of the male matched that of Laurishke. According to the complaint, the woman added she also heard a beep sound and noticed "something was underneath the stall divider."
Police reviewed Laurishke's Nintendo DS device and found videos taken of the women in the UW-Waukesha bathroom, according to the complaint.