She felt like she was being watched. Then she found a hidden camera in her bathroom | CBC News

CBC - 21/04
A young single mother in Digby County recently fled her home after finding a camera in the bathroom of her rental unit. She wants to warn others who may be staying in unsafe housing for lack of options.

Her nightmare started in the bath.

A young single mother looked up and felt her privacy evaporate when she noticed a tiny camera in the bathroom ceiling of the basement apartment she lived in with her toddler. 

She said it looked like a screw, no bigger than a pinky nail.

"But I had a feeling it wasn't a screw. I was shaking, I was in sheer, utter panic," she said in an interview from her mother's home in Digby County, N.S.

The woman, who CBC News cannot name because her identity and the identity of her son are protected by a court-ordered publication ban, said finding the camera turned her world upside down.

"I still feel sick to my stomach because of it," she said. "It was the sickest feeling of my life. I don't even know a word to describe how low and violated I felt at that time."

The tenant t...
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