A longtime member of the Toronto Paramedic Providers is dealing with charges in relation to his conduct at a Kitchener, Ont. strip membership.
On the night time of July 26, 2023, Jennifer Marry was not anticipating to enter Roxxanne’s, the place she labored as an unique dancer. Nonetheless, an everyday buyer named Adam Deskur requested her.
“We made a deal that I would come in on the condition that he gave me a certain amount of money,” Marry defined.
She mentioned it’s frequent to trade cellphone numbers with regulars to allow them to plan their hours round visits.
Throughout this specific shift, she seen one thing was off with Deskur.
“His phone was propped up against the bottle he had bought,” she mentioned. “I picked up the phone and he was recording.”
Given the membership’s strict guidelines towards filming, Marry confronted him.
“He got extremely upset and irate and he said: ‘OK, you’re right. Just smash the phone. Smash it,’” she mentioned.
Deskur was kicked out, however his cellphone remained on the membership.
Marry was in a position to unlock the machine the next night time.
“There were 96,000 photos in his phone of all kinds of women,” she mentioned.
As she continued to scroll, she noticed issues she couldn’t have imagined.
“The first thing that I saw was just the couple videos of me that he had taken that night. Then I just started seeing other women that I work with. I saw women I didn’t know,” she defined. “There were photos of me drinking coffee and he had superimposed his penis into the photos to make it look like I was giving him oral sex.”
Marry mentioned there have been additionally photos of her co-workers with bruises on them, which she alleges Deskur Photoshopped into the photographs as nicely.
“When I saw what he had done to the women that I work with, that bothered me the most,” she mentioned, by way of tears. “It’s weird how a person can have a certain threshold for things that happen to them, but when you see something happen to somebody else, it’s horrible.”
And it didn’t finish there.
She mentioned Deskur made workers at Roxxanne’s conscious he labored as a paramedic in Toronto for a few years. With that in thoughts, one folder on his cellphone stood out to Marry.
“He had [a folder] called Toronto EMS… and then you go into it and there’s wounded people. There was a photograph of a woman who was deceased and topless,” she mentioned.
Marry known as the Waterloo Regional Police Service and Deskur was later arrested and charged with voyeurism. He was additionally charged with felony harassment for repeatedly contacting her.
A spokesperson for the Metropolis of Toronto confirmed to that Deskur is an worker of Toronto Paramedic Providers.
“He is currently out of the workplace and has been for some time. We are aware of the allegations,” the assertion learn, partly.
When the incident occurred, Marry mentioned she notified all the ladies that she labored with and all of the neighbouring golf equipment.
Deskur was launched on the situation he didn’t return to Roxxanne’s or some other grownup leisure institution.
Nonetheless, in November 2023, he broke that launch order and was caught visiting The Manor, one other strip membership, in Guelph, Ont.
Though many months have handed, and Marry not works at Roxxanne’s, she continues to be disturbed.
“He would use his medical knowledge to kind of instill fear in me,” she mentioned. “I am afraid of him. I never want to see him ever again.”
The allegations in regards to the content material discovered on Deskur’s cellphone haven’t been confirmed in court docket.
Marry hopes talking up will spark change.
“I know that he would not stop,” she mentioned. “He’s dangerous for women. The sex industry is generally just looked down on. It’s not considered employment, but it is a job. I needed the job to take care of my family.”
Marry additionally desires to shed a light-weight on the mistreatment inside all strip golf equipment and hopes the legal guidelines damaged inside its partitions are not neglected.
Deskur’s subsequent court docket date is June 5 in Kitchener. The Crown will point out whether or not they have recovered any video from Deskur’s cellphone, which is the premise of the voyeurism cost.
