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Former Tulsa teacher sentenced for peeping tom, porn crimes

By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer
Published: 11/17/2008 8:56 PM
Last Modified: 11/17/2008 8:56 PM

A former Tulsa teacher was sentenced Monday to 6½ years in prison for pornography and “peeping Tom” crimes.

William Lee Hunter Jr. had pleaded guilty Sept. 29 to a felony charge of being a peeping Tom with photographic or electronic equipment.

Tulsa County prosecutors charged him in June in that case, which involved an accusation that he set up a video camera in an air vent above a boys’ restroom stall at Springdale Elementary School between August 2005 and June 2007.

Hunter, 43, was a teacher at Springdale. He resigned from Tulsa Public Schools in June 2007.

Police were notified of allegations leading to the peeping Tom charge after another Springdale teacher found a tape in a camera in April that showed the defendant putting the camera in the vent, a detective’s affidavit states.

On the tape, “you can hear the bathroom stall door opening and closing, children talking, toilets flushing, and various other bathroom noises,” the affidavit says.

In September 2007, Hunter received a four-year suspended sentence in a case in which he was accused of viewing child pornography on a computer at the downtown Central Library in July 2007 — after he had resigned from TPS.

He had pleaded guilty to a felony charge of possessing child pornography.

On Monday, District Judge Gordon McAllister sentenced Hunter to a split five-year term — 2½ years in prison and 2½ years of probation — for the peeping Tom crime.

McAllister revoked Hunter’s probation in the pornography case and imposed a four-year prison sentence, to run consecutively with the peeping Tom time.

The application to revoke the pornography probation included an allegation that he had been terminated from a treatment program for violating attendance requirements.

Hunter has been in the Tulsa Jail since June 17. By BILL BRAUN World Staff Writer

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	Report Comment Missy M, Depew (11/17/2008 11:27:28 PM) Oh yeah,Ive been searching the web looking for somethin on myself the way weirdo's walk around trying to look up woman folks skirt.You never know,I go up and down those esculaters all the time with a dress on.Freakin weirdo's.Exspecially little children,freakin weirdo's.Cant never tell whos a weirdo now days.And who has eyes for the children.I think they ought to be horse whipped.Looking at small children,even lookin at grown woman,without their knowledge is pretty weird in its own right,no matter who it is.....and just think they want a raise and they cant make the grade themselves,just goes to show ya who's teaching these children nowdays.,,maybe he was gonna teach them to catch a ball.
	Report Comment Missy M, Depew (11/17/2008 11:28:48 PM) I mean no pun intended it just came out that way.
	Report Comment LesGuvment, Sand Springs (11/18/2008 5:00:47 AM) "Peepers" get a free pass in Osage County. Remember Noonie" in Skiatook. It helps if your Dad us the Sup.
	Report Comment PAN, (11/18/2008 6:21:50 AM) 'Peepers' are usually the last people you would expect to do such a thing. I went to school with one who was married by the time he became a 'peeper' and he was happily married! When asked why he did it, he couldn't really explain why he did it. He was peeping in only one particular woman's window, so I think his reason was that he had a crush on her or something. STRANGE PEOPLE!!

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