A female Boston University student reported that she saw a man spying on her in a bathroom of the nearly deserted College of Arts and Sciences late Wednesday night.
At about 9:30 p.m., a junior in the College of Communication and CAS, said she was in the second floor women’s bathroom of CAS after leaving a Model United Nations meeting in room 225 when she saw a man peeking into her stall from an adjacent stall, standing on a toilet to peer over the divider.
She said she noticed a “shadow out of the corner of [her] eye,” then bent down to investigate the stall next to her’s.
She saw the sole of a man’s shoe on top of the toilet, then looked up to see the suspect staring at her.
The student said she was disturbed that she hadn’t seen the man before she entered the bathroom, despite the halls of CAS being almost totally empty.
“I wouldn’t say I’m a paranoid person, but I’m a pretty careful person,” she said. “To me, it seemed like he was watching the bathroom waiting for a girl to go in.”
She said she yelled “Get out,” at the man and screamed for help before running out of the bathroom back to the meeting room. She then called BUPD, which responded a few minutes later, she said.
BUPD conducted a search of CAS, but did not find the man, she said.
She also said a janitor had spotted the man wandering around the 3rd and 4th floors.
Although she did not get a full look at the suspect, the student described the man as white and in his 40s with a tanned complexion and dark, graying hair.
Five different “Peeping Tom” incidents were reported in CAS during the Spring 2009 semester.
One student told BUPD she had seen a balding, white man in his 30s spying on her on three separate occasions. Another female student reported she had seen a similar suspect also spying on her, BUPD spokesman Jack St. Hilaire said to The Daily Free Press at the time.
St. Hilaire said the 2009 suspect was “obviously not following” the either of the students.
“It’s an open building. He just walks in and waits to see if there’s no one around,” he said.
BUPD did not immediately respond to requests for comment on Wednesday’s incident.
The student said BUPD told her after the incident that she had “reacted the right way” to the incident by immediately calling them and yelling for help.
“They said I did the right thing in looking out for myself,” she said.
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