<div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The victim of a biomedical student busted for secretly filming women in public toilets is now fearful of her safety and can no longer use public restrooms.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman is among an unknown number of victims, who university student Bao Phuc Cao recorded without permission in intimate settings in public facilities.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The 23-year-old was found with more than 100 videos on his phone but authorities are unsure if they're all of the same or different victims, </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/melbourne" rel="" target="" title="Melbourne"><span>Melbourne</span></a><span> Magistrates </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/courts" rel="" target="" title="Court"><span>Court</span></a><span> was told today.</span></div></div><div><div id="adspot-mobile-medium"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/qantas-settles-covid-class-action-for-105-million-dollars/5328147d-ccf8-4e0b-8af7-a5ff6622fd89" target="_blank"><strong><span>Qantas agrees to $105 million settlement over COVID-19 flight credits</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman had gone into the public toilets at Chipmunks Playland and Cafe Docklands on February 20, 2025, and saw there was one other person in an adjoining cubicle.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>As she used the toilet, she noticed an iPhone being held close to the wall near the cubicle and that it was recording.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman became scared and panicked at the sight of the recording, leaving the toilets to call security who found Cao in the toilet cubicle.</span></div></div><div><div class="OUTBRAIN" data-reactroot="" data-src="//www.9news.com.au/national/womans-trauma-after-student-filmed-her-in-toilet/9bf9e06e-eebd-4620-8885-aa50682d229a" data-widget-id="AR_5"></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Magistrate Michelle Mykytowycz read the woman's victim impact statement and described how Cao's offending had a profound impact on the complainant.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"She remains anxious, unsurprisingly she is hypervigilant," the magistrate said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The woman's sense of safety has been and continues to be affected, impacting her ability to use the restroom in the office and in public, she added.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"These concerns are the long-term effects of your offending," Mykytowycz said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><strong><span>READ MORE:</span></strong><span> </span><a href="https://www.9news.com.au/national/weather-forecast-australia-rain-set-to-continue-in-wet-start-to-autumn/67708694-59eb-4fa0-a764-9c5889f23eac" target="_blank"><strong><span>Rain set to continue in wet start to autumn across parts of country</span></strong></a></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>On Friday, Cao was sentenced to a 12-month adjourned undertaking without conviction where he must be of good behaviour and comply with his previous community corrections order.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The offender had been sentenced twice before receiving a community corrections order — in July 2025 on the same matter and May 2025 relating to an incident in October 2024.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Under the principle of totality, the magistrate said his charge today should have been bundled with his previous sentencing as it would have been unlikely to have impacted his prior sentence.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>Mykytowycz took into account his guilty plea, youth and that he has no family in Australia, but described the offending as very serious and the complainant was entitled to feel safe.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Your offending was not of a physical nature but of the most intimate kind in a public toilet," she said.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>"Court has to send a message to the community that they denounce this offending and (reinforce) the protection of women who are entitled and must feel safe in public utilities."</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>The court was told Cao's phone used in the offending will be returned to him after authorities figure out how to delete all its contents.</span></div></div><div class="block-content"><div class="styles__Container-sc-1ylecsg-0 goULFa"><span>He left the court a free man and was bundled away from the chasing media pack by the son of a man who was jailed in a separate case heard before Cao's sentencing.</span></div></div>