A 20-year-old man has been charged with slyly photographing young "females' backsides" in his Eagan neighborhood and behind the counter at a fast-food outlet and then posting the images online, where they attracted sexually oriented comments on a photo-sharing website.
Tyler M. Sauve was charged Monday by the city attorney's office with various gross misdemeanors and misdemeanors, including 21 counts of disorderly conduct, one count for each of 21 people "who were upset or alarmed by the defendant's conduct," the criminal complaint read.
Sauve also is charged with five counts of criminal defamation and one count of being a public nuisance. He has yet to be arrested and has an Oct. 27 court date, police detective Desiree Schroepfer said Tuesday.
At the time the allegations surfaced in early September, Schroepfer said the photos, which were taken outdoors, were of fully clothed children and had been removed from the website.
Sauve did not return a call Tuesday afternoon seeking reaction to the charges.
According to the complaint:
Police learned of the photos and accompanying comments on a Russian-based website on Aug. 18 from the Wisconsin Department of Justice, which came upon the images while investigating an unrelated case.
The photos were of "females' backsides and also images of someone [the] defendant identifies as his 13-year-old cousin," the complaint read. There also were pictures of "the buttocks of several females working behind the counter at Jimmy John's," the court document continued.
