A Bellevue man with a history of peeking at women in restrooms was charged Wednesday with voyeurism and assault in connection with a June 25 incident at a Bothell church.
Jae Kyu Park, 28, punched a woman in the face after she confronted him for allegedly peering at her from a restroom stall in the church bathroom, deputy prosecutor Craig Matheson said in Snohomish County Superior Court papers.
The punching – a fourth-degree assault – was filmed by the church’s surveillance cameras, the prosecutor said.
The woman said she was struck when she tried to get Park to surrender a digital camera.
Park was connected to the incident at the church after Bellevue police reported that a composite sketch of the Bothell peeper resembled a registered sex offender in that community.
Park was known to Bellevue police because of convictions for voyeurism and criminal trespass in the late 1990s. The cases involved nearly three dozen women who were spied upon in King County bathrooms, according to court papers.
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