CHESTERFIELD COUNTY, Va. -- The Chesterfield woman who was illegally filmed in her bathroom last year by her former son-in-law is breaking her silence about the ordeal.
"He was like my son and....for him to do that to me and my family it's just too much,” Theresa, who requested that we use only her first name, told WTVR CBS 6 reporter Sandra Jones.
She said what happened to her is like an open wound when she was violated by her former son-in-law. a family member.
“Do you know still to this day when I walk into my bathroom, I have to get in the shower to get undressed,” Theresa explained.
She said when her former son-in-law Brandon Thompson set up cellphone camera in her bathroom on Feb. 28, 2015, her life was forever changed.
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"I saw it recording and I stopped it. And I played it and I saw myself on the video,” Theresa said. "I kept hitting it to delete it."
She reported the incident to Chesterfield police, officers arrested Thompson at his job and he was charged with unlawful image of another.
Theresa said she feared the worst and waited a week to tell her family.
“I waited because I knew if I went downstairs, my daughter, my husband... If they knew right then, something bad was going to happen. Somebody was going to get killed,” Theresa explained.
A Chesterfield judge convicted Thompson and he was sentenced to a 10-month suspended sentence, meaning he would serve two months of jail time on the weekends and ordered Thompson to undergo treatment.
Theresa
WTVR CBS 6 found out that more than a year later, Thompson has an active warrant on file in Chesterfield for allegedly doing the same thing to another known victim on Feb. 19.
That is why Theresa said she had to speak out.
“I can forgive him for what he did, [but] I can't forget," she said. "So he can't be in our life, but he cannot hurt anybody else to make their families go through this or to escalate to something more severe."
Theresa said Thompson needs help so he can "stop doing this."
Theresa tells CBS 6, Chesterfield police have been at her home on several occasions asking if the family has seen Thompson. She said there is a restraining order against him in order to keep him away from her family’s home for three years.
However, Theresa fears if Thompson is not apprehended for the second offense, he may harm her or her family.
