Mall Cop Secretly Recorded Teen Using Bathroom: Police

JOLIET, IL — A creepy mall cop secretly recorded a teenage girl while she used the bathroom at her job, police said.

Enrique Cortina, 27, was jailed Thursday on four counts of unauthorized video recording.

The Romeoville resident had worked as a security guard at the Louis Mall, a source said. The teenage victim of Cortina’s sleazy spying was also employed at the mall and worked at the McDonald’s in the food court, police said.

The 16-year-old reportedly went to the police in January and told them she was sent a video through a Facebook message that showed her using the restroom at work. She also received a link to a porn site showing videos of her and a co-worker using the bathroom, police said.

The teen had left her job at the McDonald’s in September 2014, police said.

It was not clear how police tracked the videos back to Cortina.

In February, before Cortina had been identified as the alleged washroom weirdo, the teen filed a lawsuit against the “John Doe” who had recorded her and shared the videos online.

The teen “discovered multiple videos of herself in the McDonald’s restroom posted to the Internet, specifically <xvideos.com>,” the suit said.

The “recordings captured video of (her) appearing nude below the waist,” the lawsuit said.

One video, entitled “SPY CAM in McDonald’s 1,” is seven minutes long and another, “SPY CAM in McDonald’s 2,” is 39 seconds long, according to the lawsuit.

“Combined, ‘SPY CAM in McDonald’s 1’ and ‘SPY CAM in McDonald’s 2’ have been viewed over 100,000 times,” the lawsuit said.

The former McDonald’s worker now suffers from “mental anguish, emotional distress, humiliation and embarrassment,” the suit said.

The teen’s attorney, John Di Giacomo of Traverse City, Michigan, could not be immediately reached for comment.

In July 2015, Cortina was charged with public indecency for standing naked in the bedroom window of his Rebecca Drive home. He pleaded guilty and was sentenced to six months of court supervision.