Ex-church leader admits he took photos of a woman inside H&M dressing room
A former official for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints has pleaded guilty to taking photos of a woman inside an H&M dressing room at a Tennessee mall, according to reports.
Steven Murdock, a onetime bishop and high councilor at several congregations in Salt Lake City, Utah, pleaded guilty Monday to unlawful photography for the August incident at the Opry Mills shopping mall in Nashville, the Tennessean reports.
Murdock, 55, was busted at an H&M after guiding a woman to an empty dressing room inside the store. As the woman got undressed, she then noticed a cellphone peering into the stall, according to an arrest affidavit.
The victim told WSMV that she “kind of slapped the phone” out of Murdock’s hands before he and his wife begged her several times not to call cops.
“They both offered us multiple times if we could please, you know, make a deal with them without involving law enforcement,” the woman, identified as Alondra Alcala, told the station.
Alcala also spotted several photos of herself on Murdock’s phone as he tried to delete the images, according to the affidavit.
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