Video: Upskirt Perv Caught In The Act At Burlington Coat Factory
Aug. 2, 2018, 9:21 a.m.
The woman saw the camera's flash go off.
From the surveillance camera
A woman shopping at a Queens clothing store caught a man taking photos up her skirt on Monday evening. Edjelyn Gamboa, 26, said she felt something brush up against the back of her leg, and security camera video from the incident shows the man holding his cellphone under her skirt as the flash on his phone camera goes off.
The video was posted on Reddit Wednesday:
This happened yesterday in Rego Park Queens. Perv caught on camera taking upskirt photo.from r/nyc
The incident occurred at the Burlington Coat Factory in Rego Park. Gamboa, who was shopping for her niece, told WCBS 2, "I saw a light went off behind me and he’s holding his phone on camera mode."
Gamboa and her sister, Edalyn Estrada, also described confronting the man, who said, "What happened? I didn't do anything." Estrada added that the man seemed to be using baby clothes to shield the phone—clothes he dropped when he ran away from them.
The women also got a photograph of the man and shared it on Reddit. They wrote, "Someone recognized him from the Facebook post. We are passing that info to the detective. The perv works for the city."
"I felt violated," Gamboa, who is visiting her sister from the Philippines, told WCBS 2. "We're women, and simply wearing skirts doesn't give them a pass to harass us."
