For two years, a former Roosevelt High School Social Studies Teacher and Girls Soccer coach put on a shoe camera two times a week and secretly took video up women's skirts.
On Friday, Dallas Wilkinson pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges of taking pictures without consent and he's been banned from places he used to frequent to take those images.
Last June, an alert Hy-Vee manager noticed Wilkinson was watching women in dresses and skirts and placed his foot under them from behind. It was all caught on store surveillance video. When Wilkinson was arrested, it was the first time most people had ever heard of a shoe camera and a first of a kind case for investigators and the court.
Angela Kennecke: Do you apologize to the women whose video you took?
Wilkinson: I have deep remorse and that's all I can say today. Thank you.
Wilkinson did hear from a victim through a letter written to the court. In it, she says she never knew he took video of her until investigators showed up at her door.
"She wasn't able to go to that grocery store for a period of time and was very self-conscious of wearing a skirt of a dress. The impact it's had on her and her family--the fear and the shame," Minnehaha County State's Attorney Aaron McGowan said.
In her letter, she tells Wilkinson that, "you violated me. What you did was despicable, I will never forgive you. I hope you get help and do not put anyone else through what I went through."
Wilkinson took as many as 200 videos of women, but investigators only had a handful of them and only the one victim could be identified.
"It certainly could be well over 100 women in Sioux Falls area who are victims of this crime," McGowan said.
Kennecke: And they'll probably never know?
McGowan: They'll probably never know they were a victim.
Wilkinson says after he got caught, he lost everything. He surrendered his teaching license and his wife is divorcing him. He is undergoing therapy for sex addiction.
The judge banned Wilkinson from going to Panera Bread, all Hy-Vee stores and the Farmers' Market for one year -- all places that he frequented to take his videos up women's skirts.
He faced up to a year in jail, but will only spend four months behind bars and be out on work release and electronically monitored for the rest of the year.
He must also undergoing sex addiction counseling for two years.