A man’s diaper fetish is at the center of a human rights complaint against a Canadian university.
CBCNews reports Vancouver Island University is currently ensnared in a human rights complaint by female staff who allege the school did not do enough to protect them from a male student who shared forced his instructors to indulge in his diaper fetish.
The complaint by Katrin Roth, the former director of Human Rights and Respectful Workplace at Vancouver Island University, claims the school treated the 40-something’s desire to be treated as like an infant as a protected disability.
English women’s studies professor Janis Ledwell-Hunt also told CTVNews about her experience with the man when he was her student in 2015.
Ledwell-Hunt told CTVNews, “He started to bring children's books into class and asked that I read them aloud.”
Ledwell-Hunt also explained that the man repeatedly emailed her to ask her to go on dates. He even reportedly submitted an essay to her, for an assignment, that featured a photo of him in a soiled diaper.
“My heart went to my throat because it was then that I recognized that in his interactions with me all along, he had been manipulating me into this form of role play,” she added.
“He'd show up in a Curious George outfit with a soother around his neck,” she also divulged to CBCNews.
When Ledwell-Hunt reported the man’s behavior, she was allegedly told to continue instructing him like nothing happened. The man also threatened Ledwell-Hunt by saying he would file a human rights complaint against her for discriminating against him due to his “exceptionality.”
The Times Colonist reports two other women were intimidated by the man’s behavior. It also states he asked multiple nurses to change his dirty diapers.
The man at the center of the suit told CBCNews, “I will say I am special needs and 3, so I am not in my 40s.”
“I would like it though if one of these news stories didn't mention about something sexual in them, because it's not for me,” he added.
The 105-page case against the school is currently before the British Columbia Human Rights Tribunal.
Shelley Legin, the chief financial officer and the administration VP for Vancouver Island University, told CTVNews, “VIU’s confident that we took appropriate steps and any complaint that comes forward, we will defend VIU’s position in any court of law.”
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