The hockey athletic trainer who allegedly filmed a 14-year-old girl showering in the Breezy Point Ice Arena in Breezy Point appeared in court Tuesday on a criminal charge stemming from the incident.
James William Diffley, 32, Maple Grove, was charged June 24 in Crow Wing County District Court with felony interfering with a minor’s privacy. Judge Kristine DeMay presided over Tuesday’s hearing and a contested hearing was scheduled for 9 a.m. April 26, 2016.
According to the criminal complaint filed against Diffley, Breezy Point officers were dispatched at 9:45 p.m. June 22 to the ice arena for a report of a male possibly filming a minor female who was showering in a locker room. An officer spoke with a 14-year-old victim and a 15-year-old witness. Both girls were participating in an all-female hockey camp taking place in the ice arena.
The officer learned the victim was showering and the witness had left the arena, but returned to the locker room to retrieve shampoo, which she had forgotten. The 15-year-old approached the locker room and saw a male standing in the locker room with a phone in his hand reaching around a privacy wall. He appeared to be filming the girl showering.
The 15-year-old confronted the male, at which time he put the phone in his pocket and walked out, the complaint said. The man was captured on video at the arena and identified as Diffley, the hockey camp athletic trainer.
Diffley was located at a cabin at Breezy Point Resort and he admitted to using his phone to observe the 14-year-old female showering without clothing, the complaint said.
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