Friday, April 29, 2016

Target Has History of Sexual Assault in Their Bathrooms


25 examples of women and children 
being assaulted in Target bathrooms

By Rusty Ford

Target official know that this issue has nothing to with transgender. Every target store already has a safe bathroom for transgenders. Like all other retail stores Target has a long history of women and children being assaulted in their bathrooms. This is something that every executive at Target knows. They also know that this is a problem at almost every Target location as it is with all other major retail stores. 

This article is the result of an hours worth of searching on the Internet. It documents 25 cases of women and children being abused or filmed in the bathrooms or changing rooms at Target Stores. I did not include the myriad of other stories of sexual assault that happened in Target stores that did not happen in the bathrooms or changing rooms of Target.

I know 3 managers at major retail stores. The have each told me that men sneaking into the women's bathrooms and changing rooms is a problem not only at their stores but all major retail stores. The biggest problem is they almost never get reported to the police. In fact, unless there is an actual physical assault, they all say their companies discourage reporting these events to the police for fear of bad publicity. The question is if some men are willing to sneak into a ladies room when it is against the rules and they have a much higher risk of being caught, how much more of a problem might it becomes okay and accepted.

Here are a few things to think about as your read this article. 

  1. Just as is in the case of rape or other types of assault the majority of women do not report bathroom incursions to the police or store managers. 
  2. The majority of cases that are shared with the police never are reported in the news. I have seen reports that fewer than 1 in one hundred sexual assaults that are reported to the police are reported in the news. 
  3. Research into voyeurism (peeping toms) I did when Washington passed its open bathroom rules showed that the vast majority of peeping toms never get caught. One of the reasons is the the vast majority have never been reported. 
  4. Stores discourage reporting these incidents to the place for fear of the bad publicity it will bring to their stores. 
  5. Last of all. Most men who do these things are not caught the first time they do them. 
So you can imagine if I can find these examples in a simple hour on the Internet just how bad the problem may really be. 

Read the articles listed with care. You will never look at a  public restroom the same again. 

  1. An O'Fallon, Missouri man was arrested on April 23 after allegedly secretly filming women in a Target dressing room.
  2. DALLAS, TX 4/25: A transgender ‘woman’ by the name of James Goebel was caught snapping photos of underage girls using the restroom at a Dallas area Target store Monday morning.
  3. Joshua Sheldon, 33, pleaded guilty Thursday to voyeurism at a Target store, a second-degree misdemeanor, according to Miamisburg Municipal Court.
  1. Woman Chases Down Peeping Tom from Target Dressing Room.
  2. Police have arrested a man accused of exposing himself to a 9-year-old boy in the bathroom of a Target store in Cedar Park in February.
  3. Hanford man confesses to hiding camera in Target store restroom, police say
  4. Man arrested for voyeurism after looking at young boy in Target restroom
  5. Man Arrested for Taking Photos of Woman in Target Bathroom
  6. Rocky Mount police said officers responded on March 31 to a complaint at Target where a 24-year-old woman reported seeing a man’s phone under the wall of the dressing room.
  8. An alleged peeping Tom is in police custody after a victim said he secretly recorded her changing inside a dressing room in a Montgomery County Target store.
  9. Kingsville man held in suspected Bel Air peeping Tom incident
  10. Springdale police are asking for help identifying a man accused of trying to take videos of women in a Target dressing room.
  11. Wadsworth man took pictures of customers in Target fitting rooms
  1. Peeping tom caught filming women in Brentwood Target dressing rooms
  2. Anderson PD: 'Peeping Tom' took pics of people in Target bathroom
  3. Target store peeping Tom gets ten years for child porn
  4. Huntersville Police arrested a man accused of taking pictures of a 12 year old girl in the dressing room of a local Target.
  5. Owasso police said a woman caught Douglas Collins staring at her underneath her dressing room door while shopping at an Owasso Target.
  6. PERKINS TOWNSHIP, Ohio -- A "Peeping Tom" was arrested for recording cell phone video of a woman inside a dressing room earlier this week.
  7. Man arrested for molesting boy at Target store
  8. Pennsylvania man used pen camera to film women in Target dressing rooms
  9. Police in Harford County are asking for the community's help to catch a man who tried to record video of a young woman inside of a changing room.
  10. As Dayton Daily News reported, yesterday it was discovered that the Target here in Huber Heights had become the target of a peeping Tom. The criminal had somehow managed to sneak a camera into one of the women's dressing rooms.
  11. Rape Suspect Was Linked to Target Peeping Tom Cases
    http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/local/Rape-Suspect-May-be-Linked-to-Peeping-Tom-Cases-Police-202331951.html

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  1. Middletown InsiderMay 15, 2016 at 3:39 AM

    Seriously, moms and dads; do you want someone with a penis alone in the bathroom with your 12 yr old daughter?

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