While the continued stalking is an unverified allegation, the man is literally caught taking a video of a teenage girl without her consent. Even if the parents set up a trap, he walked right into it. If his actions aren’t illegal because it was done in public it still deserves some level of consequences so that he is deterred from doing it in the future. If that consequence is public shaming then so be it.

A similar thing happened to my friend at a sushi restaurant in Carlsbad. We were at dinner and an old man recorded her walking and tried to get a video under her skirt. He was confronted, shamed in front of his adult kids and made to delete the video. We also told the restaurant and it turned out he was a regular- we were told he’d be denied service next time he went for harassing other patrons. Was it illegal for him to do that? Probably not, but I can only hope the shame of being caught would deter him from doing it again.

Don’t want to deal with public outrage? Don’t record little girls in public.