Spring Farm Public teacher Guy James Meogrossi to be sentenced for filming up student’s skirt

Spring Farm Public teacher Guy James Meogrossi will face sentencing on Monday after police discovered dozens of inappropriate videos of women on his phone while searching for a video he’d taken of a student.

Former Spring Farm Public School teacher Guy James Meogrossi, 31, will face Campbelltown court on Monday for sentencing. Picture: Facebook

A Sydney primary school teacher arrested for filming up the skirt of a female student had inappropriate videos of dozens of women on his mobile phone, including a fellow teacher.

Spring Farm Public School teacher Guy James Meogrossi, 31, will face Campbelltown Local Court on Monday for sentencing after pleading guilty to three counts of attempting to film a person’s private parts without consent and one count of filming a person’s private parts without consent.

The charges encapsulate what police claim was a spate of crimes committed by Meogrossi on 46 unsuspecting women – offences which only came to light when he was nabbed for filming a young student during school hours.

According to police documents tendered to the court, Meogrossi was sitting at a table near several children during a joint class with another teacher when he was seen by the victim to remove his mobile phone from his pocket and point it in her direction.

“[The victim] looked behind her and saw the offender had his phone resting on his left thigh, underneath the table and zoomed onto the victim’s legs and skirt,” police said in a set of agreed facts.

“She knew it was recording because the camera button was red and the seconds were moving.”

Spring Farm School in the Camden area of NSW. Picture: Supplied

The court heard another student also saw Meogrossi recording the victim, before he stood up and resumed walking around the classroom.

Court documents state the children began talking once Meogrossi had left the table, with one of the children telling the victim what had happened.

The victim asked if they were joking, then got upset when told they were not.

The court heard the girl and her friend spoke to the second teacher a short time later and told her what they’d witnessed.

The teacher told the students not to tell anyone and to stay on her side of the classroom in the far corner of the room.

She reported the incident to the assistant principal at lunchtime, who spoke to the students about what had happened then immediately contacted police.

Officers arrived at the school a short time later and spoke to Meogrossi, who denied taking inappropriate photos or videos of any children.

The court heard he said he “accidentally” turned the camera function on when he retrieved the phone from his pocket and didn’t realise it was on until one of the students on the floor turned around.

Former Spring Farm Public School teacher Guy James Meogrossi, 31, has been arrested. Picture: Facebook,

He said he then immediately turned it off.

Police said Meogrossi denied intentionally recording any students that day, and definitely did not record anything inappropriate.

However, when officers inspected his phone, they discovered a video nearly eight minutes in length which showed Meogrossi had been trying to film up the student’s skirt.

“Police saw numerous videos of the same conduct to different people,” court documents state.

Meogrossi was arrested and taken to Narellan Police Station.

A forensic examination of his mobile phone discovered a further 57 video files involving similar conduct towards 46 women, including a fellow teacher.

The court heard most of the videos were shot in an undisclosed public post office, with the footage lasting from less than a minute right up to multiple hours.

None of the women were aware they were being filmed, and police have not been able to identify most of them, court documents state.

Meogrossi remains behind bars, bail refused.