Two Mothers Join L.I. Woman's Video Voyeurism Fight

Video voyeurism victim-turned-fighter Stephanie Fuller has two more allies in her push to get New York state lawmakers to toughen laws against the practice: a pair of mothers whose children were videotaped secretly by their kindergarten teacher.

Brenda Thurston and Suzanna Jarzynka, both of Wayne County, discovered their daughters had been videotaped changing their clothes in their classroom’s coat closet in June 2000. And, like Fuller's videopeeping landlord, the girls’ teacher, Michael Dorrington, got off with misdemeanor charges and a virtual wrist slap, the New York Post said.

That's why Thurston and Jarzynka joined Fuller to push Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver for a March 19 meeting on behalf of putting some better force behind New York’s video voyeurism laws.

"It's awful when you get violated twice - once by the perpetrator and once by the system - because there is no law," Thurston told the Post. "We know what needs to be done, I think he [Silver] knows what needs to be done, and now it's just got to get done," Jarzynka told the paper.