Justice system struggling to deal with convicted Saskatoon voyeur Kyle Ronald Hameluck
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A Saskatoon provincial court judge is going to try this week, once again, to figure out what to do with convicted voyeur Kyle Ronald Hameluck.
The 35-year-old is scheduled for a bail hearing Thursday. He was charged earlier this month with intimidation, criminal harassment and voyeurism, allegations related to incidents from January, February and March of this year.
Hameluck is well known to city police and the criminal justice system. In 2020, he pleaded guilty to 38 counts of voyeurism involving 25 victims. Those offences were committed while he was on probation for voyeurism and indecent assault convictions from 2017.
Hameluck has served time in jail, been ordered to take counselling and, at various points, been confined to his home on curfew, worn an electronic monitoring bracelet, been on probation and ordered not to own a phone with a camera.
None of the measures have stopped his offending.
"The cycle has to be broken," says University of Saskatchewan psychology professor Mark Olver, who specializes in recidivist sexual offenders.
"It's a very invasive and intrusive thing for people to experience. There are real victims."
Hameluck's sentencing hearing on May 13, 2020, gave insight into his pattern of offending and the profound impact his actions had on his victims.
He was arrested in March 2019, one month after campus police at the U of S followed up reports of a suspicious man lurking around a residence complex by the university.
Hameluck prowled the area around the female residence buildings at Aird Street and Cumberland Avenue. He was seen looking into windows and described as lurking around the ground floor of the buildings.
City police got into Hameluck's phone.
"On his mobile phone, Mr. Hameluck had numerous videos that showed, again, young women, typically 18 to 25 years of age, in their homes, either in the bathroom or their bedroom area, nude or in a state of undress, or in some cases involved in sexual activity," prosecutor Evan Thompson said.
Police identified 25 separate victims. The challenge facing the investigators was that the vast majority of the young women were not even aware that they had been secretly filmed.
Police did identify and track down two. Their victim impact statements spoke to the trauma of what happened.
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