Ryan France secretly set up the device at his teenage victim’s home without her knowledge between September 2018 and May 2019.
There he captured various clips of the girl including as she was getting dressed and spending time with her boyfriend.
But the 25-year-old’s deception was exposed when another woman spotted the illegal images on his phone and subsequently contacted police.
Upon searching his device further, officers found a series of sexualised chats with other parties which suggested France had the intention of distributing the illicit images that he had stored of his victim.
In a statement Northumbria Police said:
“This case has inevitably caused significant distress to the victim and her family – so it is vitally important that they saw effective justice brought against the perpetrator.
“This conviction and a custodial sentence were only possible due to the bravery of France’s victim, as well as all the witnesses who came forward and assisted our investigation at every step of the process. They should all be incredibly proud – and this outcome is for them.
“We are committed to ensuring sexual offenders in our community are identified, arrested and brought to justice. We have trained teams of officers who are experts at pursuing paedophiles and ensuring their depravity does not go unpunished”.
France, formerly of Callum Drive, South Shields, admitted four counts of voyeurism, three counts of making indecent images of a child and one count of possessing an indecent image of a child with the intent to distribute when he appeared at Newcastle Crown Court in February.
On March 25, he was jailed for three-and-a-half years and placed on the sex offenders register for life.
