Former Kitchener massage therapist pleads guilty to videotaping clients

By Christine Clark

Posted Dec 8, 2016 10:16:27 AM.

This article is more than 5 years old.

A former massage therapist from Kitchener has pleaded guilty to videotaping his clients, including two underaged girls, while they undressed before their massages.

In June, 34-year-old James Ward was charged with two counts each of voyeurism and making child pornography.

Ward had worked at Queen Street Wellness in Kitchener where a hidden camera was found.

Court documents show that Ward secretly took more than 1,000 videos stemming back to 2008.

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