Dozens of workers targeted by sexually explicit phone calls

Dec 18, 2016
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Victoria police have received 50 reports of sexually explicit phone calls targeting female employees at businesses and investigators believe the same man might be responsible.
The number could be higher, as not all female employees have reported the obscene phone calls to police.
A woman who works at the La Senza lingerie store in the Bay Centre said she’s received a lewd phone call in recent months, as have fellow female co-workers.
The man told her she had a nice voice, called her baby and asked questions about garter belts. He asked her to stay on the phone with him, but she told the man he was being inappropriate and hung up.

“I wasn’t necessarily upset, more angry that he would do that,” said the woman, who did not want to give her name to prevent being targeted again.
She wrote down the time of the call and reported the incident to her employer but not the police. A memo was sent out to staff telling them not to give their names over the phone.
Victoria police said in June that they are investigating nine reports of sexually explicit phone calls in the previous six months. That number has now jumped to 50, according to a Twitter message from Victoria police on Tuesday.
Information appearing on call displays has not been enough to track down the caller.
“I am very disturbed to hear it’s up to 50,” said Jeff Bray, executive director of the Downtown Victoria Business Association, which has been warning businesses about the calls and urging them to report them to the police. Since putting out the warning last month, the association has heard from business owners who said some of the calls left their staff very shaken.
In some incidents, the caller made comments about employees’ specific physical features and in one case the description seemed to be accurate, Bray said. It could have been a coincidence, he said, but it left the employee feeling like she was being watched. “It was very upsetting for that staff person.”
The calls are targeting retail businesses, Bray said, and tend to be made close to the end of business hours, when there might be only one staff member closing up shop.
Christine Page, who owns the Garden of Eden adult sex shop, said her employees receive sexual phone calls regularly — sometimes as often as twice a week — but the staff is trained to deal with them. She said the conversation starts as an inquiry about a certain sex toy and then it gets more explicit. She said her staff is not intimidated and know when to end the call.
Sometimes, the store will have a spate of calls from one person and Page will tell her staff to stop answering private numbers.
Page suspects the man targeting female employees is not linked to the explicit calls received by the sex shop, because from the descriptions, the man is out to shock and scare women.
“Most men like that are after fear,” Page said. “At our store, we’re trained and we’re not shocked.”
Last month, a 33-year-old Qualicum Beach man, Joel Perry, was charged with 70 counts linked to threatening, harassing and indecent calls made across B.C. He was arrested after an investigation led by Surrey RCMP that spanned several police jurisdictions. Perry is facing 31 counts of harassing/indecent phone calls, 18 counts of criminal harassment, 13 counts of uttering threats and eight counts of extortion.
Victoria police have not said whether there’s a link between their file and the Surrey RCMP investigation.
The explicit phone calls, believed to be the work of one person, are continuing not only in Victoria, but across the province. Victoria police said major crimes detectives are working with the RCMP to find the person responsible.
Anyone who receives an explicit phone call is asked to record the calls if it’s possible and safe to do so. Police are also asking women to mark down the time, date and phone number of the call that comes in and make notes on was said, including specific words or phrases used by the man. These details could help police identify a suspect.
Anyone with information on these calls can also phone 250-995-7654, or Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-TIP

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Thanks for posting this Vanessa.I, for the life of me, never understood why guys do this and just wish they would get the help they need.
Lots of people are be-hon help.
 
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