NEW BALTIMORE, Mich. – A Hazel Park Police Officer is accused of spying on a nude woman who was breast-feeding her son using an iPhone connected to a baby monitor that was confiscated during an arrest.
In a federal lawsuit, the woman said her “world has been shattered” and that “she no longer feels safe and secure in her own home.”
The woman has worked as a Warren police dispatcher for four years.
“This is very difficult to make these accusations against someone who is also a fellow law enforcement member,” the woman said. “However this is a serious violation of my family’s privacy, including myself and my son, and it is absolutely necessary to take this action.”
Her fiancé was arrested in March on felony drug charges. She said he is a licensed medical marijuana caregiver. Police said he had too much marijuana and allegedly caught him with other drugs.
Police also seized the man’s cell phone at one of his buildings on 9 Mile Road.
In the lawsuit, the woman said she knows police placed her fiancé’s phone into evidence, a phone that is linked to her baby monitor. The only other devices connected to the baby monitor are the woman’s iPhone and iPad.
The woman said the baby monitor indicated that she was being watched while she was naked and nursing her baby. She used the “Find My iPhone” feature which led her to an address in Macomb Township, the home of the officer that confiscated the phone.
She attempted to disable the monitoring capabilities. Later that evening, after giving her child a bath, the light began flashing again. The woman screamed out that she was being watched and the light stopped blinking.
The suits says the officer “perversely and illegally spied on her and her infant son, in one of the most intimate and private moments between a mother and her baby imaginable, to satisfy his prurient voyeurism.”
Hazel Park’s Police Chief said he is standing behind the officer.