Teh One Who Knocks
07-21-2015, 10:29 AM
By JENNY FRANCIS - The Sun
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CURIOUS to find out what was on the USB stick she had stumbled across, Bronwyn Watson put it in her laptop – but what she saw left her horrified and sickened.
The teenager clicked on one of the video icons and froze when she saw herself, naked in the shower.
With a dawning sense of dread she opened other videos on the device she had found in her step-father’s drawer, and saw more intimate footage of her taken unawares in the bathroom.
Bronwyn, 19, recalls: “It didn’t make sense. Why was there a video of our bathroom — I recognised the tiles. And why had I been filmed in the shower?
“Worst of all, why did dad have it? I couldn’t breathe.
“Feeling sick, I clicked on the next video and found more of the same footage. This was older because I was holding the phone dad had bought me in 2010.
“There was no other explanation — the man I’d grown up with and thought of as my own flesh and blood had been filming me during my most private moments. I felt sick.”
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Bronwyn, a trainee accountant, went straight to the police.
And in March this year Nicholas Faux — the man who had raised her from a baby and who she called dad — got seven months for his voyeurism crimes against her and for a sickening stash of child pornography.
Although Faux, 47, an architect, is now behind bars, Bronwyn’s world has fallen apart.
She is living in fear after learning his release is imminent, after serving just four months.
And she is still trying to come to terms with the horror of his betrayal, which came while she was still recovering from the tragic death of her mother Wendy.
Bronwyn, from Clacton, Essex, says: “I’ve lost everything.
“I can’t believe the man I called dad did this to me.
“When I found the videos my whole world came crashing down.
“I’d been trying to deal with mum’s death then I had to get my head around that he’d done this. I’ve never felt so confused and scared in my life.”
Bronwyn was a baby aged six months when Faux met her mum Wendy. She was 12 when told he was not her dad.
She says: “It didn’t matter, as far as I was concerned he was my dad. That we weren’t biologically related made no difference to me. I loved him just the same.
“Nothing really changed. He was still dad to me and he was there for me as I grew up.”
She was the bridesmaid when Wendy married Faux a year later, but in 2009 tragedy struck.
Wendy was thrown from her horse, suffered a head injury and lapsed into a coma from which she never recovered.
She died aged 41 of pneumonia at Colchester General Hospital, Essex, in July 2010.
Bronwyn, who was nearly 15 at the time, says: “We were both devastated. But instead of being there for me like I needed, dad grew more and more distant.
“I’d try to reminisce about happier times together, it helped me grieve to talk about mum. But he refused to join in and just shut me out.”
Over the next couple of years Bronwyn tried to focus on school and her friends, as her step-dad’s behaviour towards her became increasingly odd.
She says: “He’d walk into my room when I was halfway through getting changed and I’d have to grab a towel to cover myself up.
“It happened quite a few times and he was always quick to leave my room when I explained I needed some privacy.
“Each time he had his phone in his hand. I didn’t think anything of it, but now I wonder if that’s when his sick obsession started.”
It was in February 2014 that Bronwyn found the incriminating USB stick while looking for Faux’s card reader so she could set up a bank app.
She quickly packed a bag and went straight to the police.
She says: “What he did was sickening. I didn’t think twice about whether to tell the police.”
After giving a statement, which led to Faux’s arrest, she went to stay at her aunt’s house. She says: “Dad was released on bail, so I spent the next year in constant fear I might see him.
“Thankfully that never happened and he didn’t try to contact me.
“In the beginning I found it hard to shower or bath. I was constantly checking bathrooms before using them.
“I also struggled to trust people and understand what I’d done wrong to make him do it.
“I felt so much pain after losing my mum, then I had to deal with all that.
“While I was scared to leave the house, he was on bail and still going to work, still driving around in his nice car.”
Faux admitted two counts of voyeurism against Bronwyn when he appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court in March this year.
The court heard how he had drilled a hole through a decorative shell on the window ledge and installed a spy camera inside to film his stepdaughter.
Faux also pleaded guilty to possessing 921 indecent still images and videos of children — 146 of which were at the worst level of child pornography.
Bronwyn was in court to see him jailed for seven months. He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
She says: “He claimed he’d become addicted to pornography after mum died. Using her death as an excuse made me so angry.
“When he walked past me in court his whole body was shaking. I felt glad it was him who was scared now. It wasn’t me any more, it was him.
“I was angry he didn’t get a longer sentence, but at least he was made to pay for what he did to me.
“We’ve just heard his release is imminent and I’m terrified that he’ll find me.”
Bronwyn, who has now moved into her own place, is also searching for her biological father.
She says: “It’d be great to have a father figure in my life again. I might even have brothers and sisters.
“Hopefully that can be the one good thing to come out of all this.”
http://i.imgur.com/pFy59sQl.jpg
CURIOUS to find out what was on the USB stick she had stumbled across, Bronwyn Watson put it in her laptop – but what she saw left her horrified and sickened.
The teenager clicked on one of the video icons and froze when she saw herself, naked in the shower.
With a dawning sense of dread she opened other videos on the device she had found in her step-father’s drawer, and saw more intimate footage of her taken unawares in the bathroom.
Bronwyn, 19, recalls: “It didn’t make sense. Why was there a video of our bathroom — I recognised the tiles. And why had I been filmed in the shower?
“Worst of all, why did dad have it? I couldn’t breathe.
“Feeling sick, I clicked on the next video and found more of the same footage. This was older because I was holding the phone dad had bought me in 2010.
“There was no other explanation — the man I’d grown up with and thought of as my own flesh and blood had been filming me during my most private moments. I felt sick.”
http://i.imgur.com/yblvGwll.jpg
Bronwyn, a trainee accountant, went straight to the police.
And in March this year Nicholas Faux — the man who had raised her from a baby and who she called dad — got seven months for his voyeurism crimes against her and for a sickening stash of child pornography.
Although Faux, 47, an architect, is now behind bars, Bronwyn’s world has fallen apart.
She is living in fear after learning his release is imminent, after serving just four months.
And she is still trying to come to terms with the horror of his betrayal, which came while she was still recovering from the tragic death of her mother Wendy.
Bronwyn, from Clacton, Essex, says: “I’ve lost everything.
“I can’t believe the man I called dad did this to me.
“When I found the videos my whole world came crashing down.
“I’d been trying to deal with mum’s death then I had to get my head around that he’d done this. I’ve never felt so confused and scared in my life.”
Bronwyn was a baby aged six months when Faux met her mum Wendy. She was 12 when told he was not her dad.
She says: “It didn’t matter, as far as I was concerned he was my dad. That we weren’t biologically related made no difference to me. I loved him just the same.
“Nothing really changed. He was still dad to me and he was there for me as I grew up.”
She was the bridesmaid when Wendy married Faux a year later, but in 2009 tragedy struck.
Wendy was thrown from her horse, suffered a head injury and lapsed into a coma from which she never recovered.
She died aged 41 of pneumonia at Colchester General Hospital, Essex, in July 2010.
Bronwyn, who was nearly 15 at the time, says: “We were both devastated. But instead of being there for me like I needed, dad grew more and more distant.
“I’d try to reminisce about happier times together, it helped me grieve to talk about mum. But he refused to join in and just shut me out.”
Over the next couple of years Bronwyn tried to focus on school and her friends, as her step-dad’s behaviour towards her became increasingly odd.
She says: “He’d walk into my room when I was halfway through getting changed and I’d have to grab a towel to cover myself up.
“It happened quite a few times and he was always quick to leave my room when I explained I needed some privacy.
“Each time he had his phone in his hand. I didn’t think anything of it, but now I wonder if that’s when his sick obsession started.”
It was in February 2014 that Bronwyn found the incriminating USB stick while looking for Faux’s card reader so she could set up a bank app.
She quickly packed a bag and went straight to the police.
She says: “What he did was sickening. I didn’t think twice about whether to tell the police.”
After giving a statement, which led to Faux’s arrest, she went to stay at her aunt’s house. She says: “Dad was released on bail, so I spent the next year in constant fear I might see him.
“Thankfully that never happened and he didn’t try to contact me.
“In the beginning I found it hard to shower or bath. I was constantly checking bathrooms before using them.
“I also struggled to trust people and understand what I’d done wrong to make him do it.
“I felt so much pain after losing my mum, then I had to deal with all that.
“While I was scared to leave the house, he was on bail and still going to work, still driving around in his nice car.”
Faux admitted two counts of voyeurism against Bronwyn when he appeared at Chelmsford Crown Court in March this year.
The court heard how he had drilled a hole through a decorative shell on the window ledge and installed a spy camera inside to film his stepdaughter.
Faux also pleaded guilty to possessing 921 indecent still images and videos of children — 146 of which were at the worst level of child pornography.
Bronwyn was in court to see him jailed for seven months. He was also ordered to sign the Sex Offenders Register for ten years.
She says: “He claimed he’d become addicted to pornography after mum died. Using her death as an excuse made me so angry.
“When he walked past me in court his whole body was shaking. I felt glad it was him who was scared now. It wasn’t me any more, it was him.
“I was angry he didn’t get a longer sentence, but at least he was made to pay for what he did to me.
“We’ve just heard his release is imminent and I’m terrified that he’ll find me.”
Bronwyn, who has now moved into her own place, is also searching for her biological father.
She says: “It’d be great to have a father figure in my life again. I might even have brothers and sisters.
“Hopefully that can be the one good thing to come out of all this.”