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CHIBA -- A public elementary school teacher, who secretly installed a video camera in dressing rooms and lavatories at the school where he worked to secretly film girls, was sacked Wednesday, education officials said.
The Chiba Prefectural Board of Education dismissed Masakatsu Sugaya, 28, a teacher at the Hikata Municipal Nishi Elementary School in Chiba Prefecture, on a disciplinary ground.
"We deeply apologize to prefectural residents for the incident. We'll do our best to regain the public's trust in education," an education board official said Wednesday.
Sugaya is accused of installing a video camera in dressing rooms and girls' lavatories at the school on numerous occasions and filming girls between June last year and October this year, board officials said.
However, the education board suspects that he started secretly filming girls in October 1998 when he was working at another municipal school.
The scandal recently came to light after one of the girls lodged a complaint with a female teacher.
Sugaya was hired as a teacher in 1997, and was assigned to Hikata Municipal Nishi Elementary School last April. (Mainichi Shimbun, Nov. 20, 2002)
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