SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - A Jane Doe filed a federal complaint on September 30 in South Carolina against Limestone University, Collins Murphy, Pornhub.com and Xhamster.com for invasion of privacy, intentional infliction of emotional distress and negligent hiring, among many other claims including racketeering.
According to the complaint, Defendant Collins Murphy was an employee at Limestone College and its intramural/summer conference director who placed hidden cameras in a locker room with the intent of filming Plaintiff and other women in all stages of undress and then posting the video footage onto the co-defendants' websites.
In the fall of 2012, the Indiana University of Pennsylvania Crimson Hawks traveled to Gaffney, South Carolina, to face the Limestone College Saints in women’s field hockey. Jane Doe was a member of the Crimson Hawks field hockey team.
Upon arriving, Doe and her teammates were directed to the men's locker room to use before and after the game. Doe showered and changed clothes such that they were in a state of nudity for periods of time in said locker room. Murphy had allegedly secretly placed a video camera in the subject locker room prior to Doe's arrival on campus and recorded the woman, without her knowledge or consent, while she was in a state of nudity.
Murphy also allegedly secretly recorded multiple women between September 2012 and October 2013. In 2019, recordings of Doe and other women were uploaded on countless pornographic websites, the suit says.
Doe seeks consequential damages, punitive damages, special damages, treble damages, cost of suit and attorney's fees. Doe is represented by J. Edward Bell, III.
U.S. District Court of South Carolina Spartanburg Division case number 7:21-cv-03193-JD