Republican consultant Nancy Maceof South Carolina displayed her nude photograph throughout a listening to at Home oversight subcommittee listening to on “surveillance in personal areas”. “As we speak I’ll present my bare physique on one of many movies predator and rapist Patrick Bryant took of me and plenty of different girls.With out our data. With out our permission. And with out our consent,” Nancy Mace introduced earlier. The Republican chief accused her ex-fiancé Patrick Bryant and three different males of rape, intercourse trafickking and non-consensually filming intercourse acts together with hers.“I communicate not simply as a lawmaker, however as a survivor. Beginning on November 5, 2023, I found my former fiancé, Patrick Bryant, had filmed girls with out their data, with out their permission and with out their consent. He filmed rape too. He appeared to catalogue the footage in the best way he saved the information. And he saved these photographs for years. This isn’t simply creepy. It’s legal—however solely beneath weak state legal guidelines,” she mentioned as she spoke in entrance of the committee.She produced her image first and mentioned it was a screenshot of her bare silhouette, which was filed in secret. “The digital camera sat silent, but it screamed my security was negotiable and my dignity disposable,” she mentioned as sh went on to produced images of the constructing, the digital camera that had over 10,000 movies saved on it. “These weren’t accidents. They had been premeditated. Deliberate. Filmed. Saved. Meticulously Organized. Catalogued. Non-public hidden folder. For YEARS. I might study after discovering these photographs, and talking to potential victims, Bryant allegedly raped not less than three girls,” Nancy Mace mentioned. “Predators like Patrick Bryant don’t ask permission, and neither ought to justice. A hidden digital camera doesn’t erase liberty and doesn’t deserve a slap on the wrist. Justice additionally doesn’t crawl out of a plea deal, it arrives in a sentence that matches the crime and restores the sufferer,” the Republican chief mentioned.
