![]() The couple agreed to let her shower at their apartment after she took their children to swim class once a week. The camera was pointed directly at the spot where Rivas had been undressing weekly for months. “I noticed a glare, and I was just like, wait this is odd, so I pulled it out of the socket, and the last video is me looking at it like, ‘What is this?’” Rivas said. As she was preparing to undress and shower, she saw a black device resembling an iPhone charger plugged into an outlet above the sink. Rivas had been watching the Seltzers’ three children four days a week for a year at their Stuy Town apartment when she made the alarming discovery in their guest bathroom on Jan. “That’s what I don’t like.”Īfter watching law enforcement dawdle on her case for a year, Rivas took legal action into her own hands - filing an invasion-of-privacy lawsuit in Manhattan Supreme Court on Jan. “It shouldn’t be allowed - for someone to do something like this - and people taking advantage of their position, their power, their connections,” Rivas told the Post in an exclusive interview. Such “unlawful surveillance” is a felony and carries up to a seven-year prison sentence. It is legal to video-record someone in common areas of your home without their consent, but you cannot spy on them in areas where they have a “reasonable expectation of privacy,” such as a bathroom. Despite Rivas’ complaint landing on the desks of both the Manhattan and Brooklyn district attorneys, neither has brought charges. ‘It shouldn’t be allowed - for someone to do something like this - and people taking advantage of their … their connections.’īut justice has not been swift. She made no threats but offered Rivas a vague promise of the pay she lost out on after the camera confrontation - if she signed a written agreement to “end this,” according to an audio recording of the call provided to the Post.Īgain, the nanny refused, instead choosing to fight for justice - and answers about the extent of the spying. The officers let her go.Ībout a week later, Rivas claims, former Manhattan Criminal Court Judge Eileen Koretz, Seltzer’s mom, phoned Rivas. The prosecutor called in the NYPD, and the next day two uniformed cops from the 13th Precinct confronted Rivas and threatened to arrest her if she didn’t hand over the memory card, the nanny recalled. When the quick-thinking nanny snatched the memory card and filed a police report for unlawful surveillance against Seltzer, the prosecutor leaned on her with every pillar of law enforcement she could muster, Rivas told The Post.īut the young nanny refused to back down. Couple used spy camera to watch nanny shower, get changed: suit
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