The dentist recorded his female employee while she was changing her clothes.

08.04.2025 16:22

A receptionist named Arancha, who works at a dental clinic near Madrid, discovered that her boss had secretly recorded her and filed a lawsuit. She learned that she had been recorded while undressing from a USB drive. The court sentenced the dentist to three years in prison and banned him from practicing his profession, and also ordered him to pay the victim 3,000 euros in compensation.

Receptionist Arancha, who works at a dental clinic in Alcorcón near Madrid, discovered that her boss had secretly recorded her and filed a lawsuit.

Arancha used a small storage-laboratory area to change her clothes at work every day. In February 2016, she found a USB stick in the reception area of the clinic. When she connected it to the computer to find its owner, she saw recordings of herself undressing, down to her underwear.

Among the recordings was this disturbing dialogue: As Arancha began to undress with the door ajar, her boss (the dentist) asked while holding the doorknob, "Can I stay? I want to." Arancha cautiously laughed and said, "No, no," and told him to "close the door."

José Pedro Vázquez, the judge of the Móstoles Criminal Court, sentenced the 53-year-old dentist (identified by the initials J.A.R.R.) to three years in prison, banned him from practicing his profession for three years, and ordered him to pay a fine of 7,500 Euros and 3,000 Euros in compensation to the victim.

The judge concluded that the dentist acted with "lustful intentions" and had secretly recorded his employee "at least six times." The dentist's defense that he installed the camera because money was stolen from the cash register in the room was rejected.

This was Arancha's second victory. Previously, in January 2019, the Supreme Court had condemned the dentist to pay 62,500 Euros in compensation for "seriously and repeatedly violating her fundamental rights."

Arancha's lawyer, Juan Antonio Jiménez-Piernas, said, "We never wanted to come to this point, but the defendant preferred my client to relive her experiences, forcing us to have to defeat him in court."