Singleton: Jason Paul Crouch faces sentencing hearing for secretly filming nine women and girls

After almost 18 months, the identity of a disgraced former Hunter real estate agent who secretly filmed nine women and girls in states of undress without their knowledge can be revealed following his sentence hearing.

Jason Paul Crouch has asked a judge to sentence him on 26 charges relating to secretly filming nine woman and children over a four-year period. File Picture: Istock.

Prominent Hunter real estate agent Jason Crouch has told a court he has caused “monumental damage” to “so many people” after admitting to using secret cameras to film nine women and children multiple times naked and without their knowledge.

But prosecutors say any remorse the now disgraced Singleton man may have shown was self centred and his failure to use his time giving evidence to apologise to his victims in the public gallery added to an argument that he was only sorry for himself.

Crouch has pleaded guilty to 15 offences and has asked Judge Tim Gartelmann to take a further 11 offences into account when sentencing him.

Those offences include filming a person in a private act without consent (aggravated and intentionally recording an intimate image without consent.

Crouch had filmed women and girls over a four-year period until his arrest in 2023 when a secret phone, with links to the hidden cameras, was uncovered.

Former Hunter real estate agent Jason Crouch, who had admitted using hidden cameras to secretly film nine women and girls over a four-year period. Picture: Supplied.

During an investigation of his mobile phone, police uncovered 11 videos of child abuse material which featured a girl inside a bathroom and recorded from outside the window looking in.

There were also 16 video files containing six women filmed in a bathroom without their knowledge, some videos including slow motion where he would zoom in on intimate areas and was able to ‘live monitor’ and adjust the camera positions during the recordings.

Crouch faced a sentence hearing in Newcastle District Court. He will learn his fate next week. (File picture)

Crouch gave evidence via audiovisual link from jail on Tuesday, with the court hearing he had written a letter to the judge outline his remorse and had also shown contrition during interviews with a forensic psychiatrist.

But when Crown prosecutor Kristy Mulley rose to ask questions, Crouch denied he knew he had been diagnosed with pedophilic disorder despite it being in a report to the court.

He also denied downplaying his criminality, including using excuses for why he initially set up the cameras to suggest that they were not immediate motives to film the girls and women in states of undress.

When asked why he would not apologise during his testimony, Crouch said he felt he had been able to properly detail his remorse in the letter to the court instead of doing it under the pressure of a courtroom.

The court heard Crouch showed a significant level of planning in hiding the cameras to secretly prey on the women and children. Picture: Supplied.

But Ms Mulley would later argue to Judge Gartelmann that Crouch’s reluctance to express contrition in his own words during his testimony – and after he had heard two “very painful” victim impact statements being read out in court – showed there was “nothing genuine” about his remorse.

Ms Mulley also argued Crouch had limited his responsibility in his offending “littered throughout his evidence”.

The Crown also argued there was significant planning in his offending.

However, Crouch’s defence barrister argued that Crouch had shown remorse both in the interview with the psychiatrist and in his letter to the court.

She also said Crouch had admitted in his testimony that he had “hurt a lot of people.”

Judge Gartelmann reserved his sentence judgement until March 5.