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Voyeur gets jail, probation for spying on showering girls

PROVO — When Marshall Fox installed a secret
camera in a shower and started snapping pictures of teenage girls,
he probably didn’t realize it would eventually lead to a year in
jail and six more on probation.

But Judge Samuel McVey handed Fox, 34, that sentence Monday for
two counts of voyeurism by electronic equipment, both third-degree
felonies. However, for the mother of one victim, that penalty
wasn’t nearly stiff enough.

“He has devastated my family,” the woman told the court. “I see
him as a repeat offender.”

Fox pleaded guilty to the charges in June, and prosecutors
dismissed an additional aggravated sexual abuse of a child charge.
His charges reflected prosecutors’ belief that two girls were
victimized, and that they were under the age of 14.

McVey said during Monday’s sentencing that the victims were
children and that Fox had occupied a position of trust. However, a
statement written by one victim and read in court by prosecutor
Donna Kelly proved that Fox also had shattered that trust. The
victim revealed that she continues to suffer panic attacks as a
result of Fox’s crimes, and that she now has difficulty trusting
people.

“I’m terrified of my friends’ parents,” she said in her
statement.

Fox hid the camera in his shower sometime between January 2010
and May 2010. It reportedly was positioned to take pictures through
a hole in the drywall, but was eventually discovered by one of the
victims.

Following Fox’s sentencing Kelly said that she agreed with the
sentence.

“I thought it was very appropriate,” Kelly said. “It will keep
him under close scrutiny.”