ST. PETERSBURG – Jennifer Turner says she was trying on clothes at Target last week when she looked in the mirror of the fitting room and saw the reflection of a man on a ladder peering down at her.

Turner, 26, was shocked.

“No one has ever seen me nude except for my doctor and my husband, ” Turner said. “There was nowhere to hide.”

Now Turner and her husband have hired a lawyer who has written a letter to Target demanding an explanation and threatening legal action.

She didn’t get the name of the tall, thin, blondhaired man on the ladder, but she assumes he was a maintenance worker.

A Target spokesman said the company was investigating the incident.

Joshua Thomas, a spokesman for Target in Minneapolis, said contract workers are expanding the store at 4450 Park St. N in the Tyrone area. In an e-mail, he wrote that contractors may have violated Target’s guidelines on where contractors can work during store hours.

“We want everyone to feel safe and secure when shopping at our stores, ” Thomas said.

Richard Wolfe, the Turners’ attorney, said the store should not have allowed anyone on a ladder above the dressing room area.

“I have no idea why anyone would let someone up there, ” he said. “You basically have a bird’s eye view of everyone going in the dressing room.”

Turner said she had recently had breast implants and was trying on bras at 10 a.m. last Wednesday when she spotted the man.

She and her husband Justin, who have two young children and live near Bay Pines, grew even angrier at the company’s handling of their complaint, saying they were blown off by the fitting room attendant and the manager.

The Turners reported the incident to the Pinellas County Sheriff’s Office but were told no crime had occurred as there was no evidence he intended to watch her.

Bruce Bartlett, Pinellas-Pasco chief assistant state attorney, said the man could still be prosecuted for voyeurism.

“It sure as heck sounds like voyeurism to me, ” Bartlett said. “It would appear to me that this guy’s conduct was improper and very well may warrant filing criminal charges.”

Typically a first-degree misdemeanor charge of voyeurism involves someone who trespasses or takes pictures, which would indicate intent, he said.

But an accidental voyeur could still be charged depending on the circumstances, such as how long he was watching or if he left when he first saw her, Bartlett said.

Jennifer Turner, a stay-at-home mom and personal trainer, says she won’t go back to Target and feels nervous undressing in public restrooms or fitting rooms.

Her husband, a manager at Tires Plus in Seminole, says he’s angry because “there’s a guy out there who knows what my wife looks like naked.”

The couple said a settlement would be nice, but they mostly hope that their complaint will bring change to Target, both in the way it protects its customers and handles problems – and that women will beware.

“I hate feeling insignificant, like we don’t matter, ” Justin Turner, 33, said. “Middle-class people make Target what they are.”

A police tribunal found Norberto Cappas guilty of ordering two jailed women to perform sex acts.

The Philadelphia Police Department will fire an officer for ordering two women to put on a sex show in a Fishtown jail cell.

Officer Norberto Cappas, 32, an 11-year veteran, was found guilty by a police tribunal of conduct unbecoming an officer and lying during a departmental investigation.

Police Commissioner Sylvester M. Johnson decided to fire Cappas from his $51,000-a-year job, following a 30-day suspension, the department said yesterday.

“This shows that the Police Department takes these matters extremely seriously,” said Capt. Christopher Flacco, the department advocate who prosecuted the case and called for Cappas’ dismissal.

Cappas, who has denied any wrongdoing, hung up on a reporter who telephoned him seeking comment yesterday. He has the right to appeal the ruling, as often happens in police disciplinary cases, and ask an arbitrator to overrule the commissioner and return him to the force.

Internal Affairs found that Cappas, in September 2003, ordered two women who were locked in a cell in 26th Police District to kiss and touch each other and expose their breasts.

“I was scared – deathly scared,” said Erica Hejnar, 28, one of the victims. “I was intimidated, and I was humiliated.”

Hejnar and her friend told Internal Affairs that Cappas dangled the keys and taunted them as he escalated his sexual demands, telling them they would do as he asked if they wanted to go home that night.

The women had been picked up on suspicion of drug possession, but they had no drugs and they were not charged with any crime.

Hejnar called police later that night to report the abuse. She also filed a civil lawsuit and was awarded $17,500, in part because city lawyers concluded that she never should have been detained in the first place.

The Internal Affairs case sat in limbo for years until The Inquirer raised questions about it in an article in August.

Earlier this month, Hejnar testified before the Police Board of Inquiry, a disciplinary panel, and tearfully recounted Cappas’ behavior that night.

“I want some kind of disciplinary action taken toward Cappas because I don’t want him doing to other women what he did to me,” she told the panel.

At the hearing, Cappas’ lawyer noted that Hejnar and her friend, when shown photographs of police officers in the 26th District, did not identify Cappas. Hejnar picked out an officer who had not been working that night.

Hejnar said that was because she had been shown small, outdated photographs. The department didn’t offer a lineup, she said.

At the hearing, as she sat only a few feet away from Cappas, she said she was certain he was the officer who tormented them.

Hejnar could not be reached for comment yesterday.

Citing Hejnar’s initial failure to identify Cappas, the District Attorney’s office declined to prosecute him.

Also testifying before the tribunal was Officer Annamae Law, who said that on the night Hejnar was in custody, she heard Cappas laughing and talking to other officers about how two women in a cell had been kissing and touching each other. Law said she loudly cursed Cappas.

Questioned by Internal Affairs, the other officers said they heard nothing. Police investigators said that silence amounted to a “cover-up.”

Four other officers involved in the case were charged in connection with the incident, including one who Internal Affairs concluded had been “evasive” and another who IAD said had a suspicious “memory loss.” Three of those officers pleaded guilty to various infractions and faced penalties ranging from a reprimand to a 15-day suspension.

The fourth officer, Sgt. Oscar Martinez, was charged with conduct unbecoming an officer and neglect of duty, for allegedly failing to supervise Cappas and other officers that night. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. The commissioner’s ruling in his case is expected soon.

JERUSALEM – Israeli President Moshe Katsav agreed to resign Thursday in a plea bargain that drops rape allegations and the threat of jail time in return for pleading guilty to lesser charges.

The deal was a dramatic reversal by Attorney General Meni Mazuz, who had announced in January that he planned to take Katsav to trial on charges of rape and other sex crimes — counts that could have landed him in prison for 20 years.

Katsav’s accusers, all former female employees, condemned the deal, which will impose no jail time for his guilty pleas to sexual harassment and obstruction of justice. He also has to pay damages to the accusers.

Claims that Katsav used his position as Israel’s ceremonial head of state to force himself on women were the most serious allegations ever brought against an Israeli leader and intensified growing worries about misconduct by a swelling list of officials.

At a televised news conference after the deal was announced, one of his accusers insisted Katsav raped her, calling him a “pervert” and “serial sex offender” who turned her into a sex slave.

“I am pained by the attorney general’s decision because it gives legitimacy to sex offenders,” said the woman, whose image was electronically blurred and her identity concealed.

The deal was widely seen as a victory for Katsav, who stepped aside from his duties in January to fight the rape allegations but didn’t resign. His seven-year term expires next month but he will resign as part of the deal, his spokesman, Ronen Tzur, told The Associated Press.

Parliament Speaker Dalia Itzik has served as acting president since January and will continue to do so until President-elect Shimon Peres is inaugurated next month.

Tzur said Katsav agreed to the plea bargain “after the smear campaign of the past year and in order to spare his family the pain” of a prolonged legal process.

Mazuz said the deal came at Katsav’s request and was finalized just moments before it was announced. He said some of the allegations would have been difficult to prove in court, adding that the president’s lawyers presented new evidence at a special hearing last month.

The attorney general said he also took into consideration the damage a prolonged trial would have caused to “the national institution of the presidency and the image of the state of Israel.”

The Katsav scandal was only one of several roiling the government, with allegations of corruption and sexual misconduct tainting other leaders, including questionable business deals involving Ehud Olmert before he became prime minister.

Former Justice Minister Haim Ramon lost his job this year and was convicted of an indecent act for forcibly kissing a female soldier. Finance Minister Avraham Hirchson, a longtime Olmert friend, is under investigation in an embezzlement case and has suspended himself from office.

Tzahi Hanegbi, a powerful lawmaker and Olmert ally, faces charges of fraud, bribery and perjury in connection with appointments he made as a Cabinet minister.

Katzav’s plea bargain was criticized by many.

Attorney Kineret Barashi accused Mazuz of giving Katsav favored treatment.

“There is no public interest in reaching a plea bargain and reducing his sentence just because we’re talking about the president, and only because we’re concerned about how we’ll look to the world,” she told Channel 2 TV.

Miriam Schler, at the Rape Crisis Center in Tel Aviv, called the deal a “travesty.”

“Basically, it gives a message to women who were raped and attacked or sexually assaulted by men in positions of power that it’s better for them to sit at home and be quiet and not tell anyone about it because it’s not worth it for them to actually file a complaint with the police,” Schler said.

A Brazilian judge has ruled in favor of YouTube, Globo Comunicações e Participações, and Internet Group do Brasil (iG) this week in a case involving Brazilian model Daniella Cicarelli and a sex video. Cicarelli and her boyfriend, Tato Malzoni, had sued YouTube after a video of the couple having sex on a public beach in Brazil appeared on the site. The pair argued that YouTube was violating their privacy. Judge Gustavo Santini Teodoro ruled that the couple’s privacy claims were unfounded and ordered Cicarelli to pay fees to each of the defendants.

So first, she ordered pizza…

The story starts with the Spanish paparazzi videotaping Cicarelli and Malzoni having sex on a beach in August of 2006. The video was subsequently leaked to several media sources and was eventually shown on the Spanish TV show Dolce Vita. One thing led to another, and the sexcapade eventually landed on YouTube, where its popularity was rivaled by other uploads of the same video. Such is the pattern for many things video these days.

Supposedly horrified, the couple began hurling legal threats at YouTube, despite YouTube’s continued attempts to remove the videos at the couple’s request. In an all-too-familiar twist, the sex video kept was continuously re-uploaded to the site by various users, and YouTube was unable to keep up. For all intents and purposes, this "sex on the beach" was like a bottomless cocktail, and the YouTube community was drunk on its sex appeal.

Eventually, a Brazilian judge stepped in and ruled in favor of the couple’s frustrations, going so far as to rule that YouTube be shutdown. Since Brazil lacks jurisdiction to accomplish that, the country tried the next best thing: blocking the site. As we discussed in a recent article on YouTube lawsuits, the ban didn’t last long, and that decision was overturned shortly thereafter. Still left unaddressed, however, was the question of whether or not YouTube could be held liable for any part of the skin-ematic event.

Teodoro’s ruling focused mostly on Cicarelli’s "good faith"—or lack thereof—in pushing the privacy case when her actions took place in public. In the Portuguese-language ruling seen by Ars Technica, Teodoro said that the couple made the claim in bad faith and tried to argue that coverage of their public sexual affair should somehow be treated as an invasion of their privacy. The judge ordered them to pay all court and lawyer costs, as well as R$10,000 (roughly US$5,000) to each of the defendants. It would appear that even in Brazil, sex in public is, well, public.

This isn’t the only victory YouTube has gained this week. The country of Thailand recently banned YouTube within the country due to "insulting" videos of Thailand’s King Bhumibol Adulyadej being uploaded to the site. Some of the videos depicted Adulyadej as a monkey, with others showed his image next to an image of feet (an action reportedly punishable by prison sentence, but Thai readers inform us that the King has never taken such action).

While representatives in the country decided not to sue Google after YouTube removed the offensive videos, the ban apparently remained intact up until this week, when Thailand’s Information and Communications Technology Minister Sitthichai Pookaiyaudom said that he will restore access to YouTube. As long as YouTube blocks "improper" content, he said, Thai viewers would be able to use the site again.

Fayner Posts: It seems the Love Twins are now free agents, their Vivid contracts expired and no extention either offered or accepted. Both twins are now with LA Direct Models.

Good for them.

But is it really a good thing for the many male performers who have never worked for Vivid?

Let’s see.

This is what I knw, what information has leaked its way to me since the twins entered the business.

One twin, I’m told, sucks a mean dick. But her pussy isn’t the best smelling thing.

The other twin has an amazing pussy. But she can’t suck a dick worth shit.

I’m not sure which one does what well and who has a better smelling twat. I’ve never even met them. I just know what people tell me, and this is what they say.

Don’t shoot the messenger, shoot the message.

I wish all the male talent luck when accepting jobs with these gals, although its very much like a double-edged sword.

Happy Hunting.