SPARTANBURG, S.C. (Legal Newsline) - Anonymous plaintiffs allegedly filmed in locker rooms at Limestone University in South Carolina who then saw the footage on pornography sites have reached a settlement.
The suit named the school, employees, Pornhub.com and Xhamster.com as defendants. The school and two individual defendants are finalizing an agreement with four plaintiffs - two men and two women. Details were not included in the notice filed with a federal judge.
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. One of the Jane Does 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.
The plaintiffs are represented by J. Edward Bell III.