OTTAWA - A 22-year-old peeping Tom got a suspended sentence Monday for ogling women in an Algonquin College bathroom then breaching bail by turning up in a high school girls’ loo.

John Nathan Nicol, who pleaded guilty to voyeurism and breach of recognizance, got credit for the two weeks he spent in jail and will have to take treatment and stay away from schools during his two-year probation.

“Obviously this man should not be in a woman’s bathroom in public anywhere,” prosecutor Adam Zegouras said, noting a psychiatrist put him at a moderate to high risk of reoffending.

Nicol was spotted by female students peering over the top of a stall in a college bathroom on Jan. 9. He fled but later admitted to a security guard that he’d done it before. He was banned from Algonquin, charged and ordered to stay away from schools and women’s washrooms.

On May 20, he was videotaped entering Cairine Wilson High School and going near the women’s washroom. Three hours later, the vice-principal got a complaint of someone being there for a long period of time. Nicol, who’d been hiding in a stall, fled but was later picked out of a photo lineup.

Defence lawyer Steven Greenberg said that Nicol, who was recently diagnosed with Asperger’s syndrome, looked but didn’t touch and has learned his lesson.

“If he hadn’t learned his lesson before he’s learned the lesson by being in custody for 14 days,” Greenberg said.

megan.gillis@sunmedia.ca