No jail for former Kelowna man who hid camera in work washroom

A former Kelowna maintenance worker who set up a hidden camera in the bathroom at work has been sentenced to a year of house arrest.

Tori-Lee Bull Child took the time to put a piece of tape over a light on the camera as he then placed it on a shelf under a diaper changing table in the staff washroom at the Ki-Low-Na Friendship Society.

When a staff member spotted the concealed camera, which was pointing at the toilet, the memory card had captured three separate hour-long recordings. Two of the recordings showed individuals using the washroom. In the other recording, no one entered the washroom.

The memory card also showed a person setting up the camera and leaving the washroom. CCTV footage identified Bull Child from his clothes and a tattoo on his arm.

The Friendship Society fired the 34-year-old and reported it to the RCMP.

The camera was found in July 2022, and it’s unclear why, but Bull Child wasn’t charged until March 2024. 

In September 2025, Bull Child appeared in a Kelowna courtroom and pleaded guilty to secretly recording nudity in a private place.

In a joint submission, Crown prosecutor Brock Bellrichard and defence lawyer Mellisa Lowe put forward a sentence of 12 months of house arrest.

However, BC Provincial Court Judge Monica McParland wasn’t swayed, as no risk assessment had been done.

“How can I assess whether he would be a danger to the public?” Judge McParland told the lawyers adjourning the case.

On May 1, seven months later, a psychiatric report put Bull Child at a moderate to high risk for sexual recidivism.

The court also heard that Bull Child had previously been convicted of a similar thing in 2018.

He’d pleaded guilty to putting a camera in the work washroom and was given a conditional discharge, whereby, after passing probation didn’t get a criminal record.

While a second conviction would likely end in jail time, RCMP mistakes put that in jeopardy.

The court heard that police hadn’t filed the paperwork following the seizure of the camera. 

Judge McParland called the RCMP’s mistake “problematic.”

If the case went to trial, there was a chance the camera and the memory card wouldn’t be accepted as evidence.

“So there is a significant issue there that I accept contributed to the joint submission arrived at,” the Judge said.

The court heard that the 34-year-old had some underlying mental health concerns and had suffered a head injury as a teenager.

Bull Child is Indigenous, but had been adopted by non-Indigenous parents. He struggled with alcoholism. He spent time in the foster care system.

The defence lawyer said he was committed to rehabilitation and was working as a security guard in a shelter in Alberta. 

Ultimately, Judge McParland accepted the joint submission and sentenced Bull Child to 12 months house arrest followed by two years probation.

Bull Child is also barred from having a phone with a camera on it.