Former Fruitvale B.C. arena employee pleads guilty to voyeurism

A erstwhile worker of Fruitvale’s Beaver Valley Arena has pleaded blameworthy to voyeurism in transportation with the find of a hidden camera astatine the West Kootenay installation successful the autumn of 2022.

Trail’s Garrit Charlie Ciardullo, 23, was accused of 1 number of secretly observing oregon signaling for a intersexual intent and 1 number of making oregon publishing kid pornography for alleged offences connected Nov. 16, 2022.

The BC Prosecution Service confirmed Ciardullo entered a blameworthy plea connected May 23 to an amended number of secretly observing oregon signaling successful a spot successful which a idiosyncratic tin reasonably beryllium expected to beryllium nude, to exposure his oregon her genital organs, anal portion oregon breasts, oregon to beryllium engaged successful explicit intersexual activity.

Ciardullo, a erstwhile Greater Trail Midget Tier 2 Smokies player, was employed astatine the Beaver Valley Arena successful November 2022 erstwhile a radical of 10 to 13-year-old pistillate hockey players recovered a clandestine compartment telephone wrong a women’s changing room.

The begetter of 1 of the alleged victims, who cannot beryllium identified due to the fact that his girl is simply a minor, antecedently told Global News that the girls noticed a compartment telephone concealed successful a ace successful the changing room’s ceiling.

“They noticed that the telephone was really connected grounds and that’s erstwhile their mindset changed from an guiltless concern to much of idiosyncratic was trying to grounds america portion we were successful the dressing room,” said the father. “They were capable to scroll backmost done 1 of the erstwhile videos and it decidedly showed the idiosyncratic who owned the telephone mounting it up.”

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Ciardullo was arrested aft the telephone was turned implicit to Trail RCMP.

He was suspended from his arena occupation and banned from attending each Regional District of Kootenay Boundary (RDKB) facilities.

Chief administrative serviceman Mark Andison confirmed Ciardullo’s employment with the RDKB was terminated arsenic of May 30, aft helium was recovered blameworthy of a transgression offence.

Ciardullo’s sentencing proceeding has been scheduled for Nov. 6 astatine Rossland Law Courts.