A former junior high school science teacher was sentenced for voyeurism on Friday.
David McMillen had to appear in two court rooms. In Yakima he was sentenced to 28 months for putting a camera under a female student's desk. Friday afternoon he was sentenced to 22 months for recording two women he'd had sex with. He'll serve the sentences concurrently, two years and four months.
"The losses I've suffered, um, which have been great are initially and primarily due to my behavior, my transgressions, my bad choice," McMillen told the judge.
Police said they searched McMillen's computer hard drives and found roughly 1,500 homemade videos, "all of which were voyeuristic in nature." The videos show young women surreptitiously filmed at Walmart, shopping malls, going up escalators, at restaurants and other locations.
One shows sex acts between McMillen and a woman who he met at her stripper job. Police said the sex acts took place in a hot tub at a Federal Way store.
That woman told police she had no idea she was being recorded, and with police there sent a note to McMillen about the videos.
"I don't blame you for being upset," he responded, according to court documents. "I'm very sorry for any difficulty caused by me and I will respond accordingly sometime very soon."
Another video showed him in a hot tub with a stripper he met at another Seattle strip club. His videos also included one of her changing.
"A video dated 6/24/14 shows McMillen and (the victim) at an Ivar's restaurant eating lunch," court documents read. "McMillen holds the camera underneath the table and films (her) crotch area, which clearly shows her underwear underneath her skirt."
When police were searching McMillen's home, they found "a very disturbing discovery," Selah detective Richard Brumley wrote in investigation documents.
The kitchen table was positioned in front of a large window that overlooks Hummingbird Park in Edmonds.
"There was a pair of binoculars located on a counter top near the table," the detective wrote. "There was a security camera monitor resting on a bench at the base of the window as well as a security camera attached to the roof line outside the home on the east end. I located a piece of paper on the table which appeared to be a logbook of neighborhood activity."
In court documents, police said McMillen's "compulsive sexual behavior is escalating" and "he is a threat to public safety."
King County Superior Court Judge Andrea Darvas told McMillen, "I don't know what happened. If you had a mid-life crisis or what. But you engaged in some disruptive behavior."
No one showed up to support McMillen in the courtroom. It was his wife who found the homemade videos and gave them to investigators from the Secret Service.
"I very greatly, deeply regret the harm caused to my wife and my kids," McMillen said.
When he gets out of prison, he'll have to register as a sex offender.
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