A MAN who pleaded guilty to taking offensive images with a phone of a teenage girl in Batemans Bay has been placed on a three year good behaviour bond.
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Craig Allan Weir, 31, of Gascoyne Way, Nowra, pleaded guilty to offensive behaviour in a public place and was sentenced in Nowra Local Court on Monday by Magistrate Carolyn Huntsman.
Weir originally pleaded guilty before Magistrate Doug Dick in Batemans Bay Local Court on February 9.
Police facts presented to the court said on the afternoon of January 18, the defendant shadowed a 15-year-old girl in a supermarket in Clyde Street.
When she leaned forward, Weir used his phone to photograph under her skirt.
A customer told staff, who asked Weir to leave and followed him to the town wharf, where he again appeared to be photographing females.
Police arrested him and took his phone.
It held images dated January 18 depicting the buttocks of two females wearing shorts and pants.
He told police he “may have bumped it and accidentally filmed them”.
Asked about another image of a female, Weir told police he took it because she was “hot”.
Magistrate Huntsman placed him on a three year good behaviour bond.