Fake masseuse offering free massages secretly records female clients, US cops say


Herring was arrested Aug 7 on accusations of ‘operating as an unlicensed massage therapist and unlawfully recording female clients without their knowledge’, the sheriff’s office said in a news release. — Photo by Christin Hume on Unsplash

A man posing as a masseur trainee was “secretly recording” women during no-charge massages that he insisted were “part of his student curriculum”, according to detectives in North Carolina.

But the 51-year-old man, identified as Robert Charles Herring, was not a student and not licensed to provide massage therapy, the New Hanover County Sheriff’s Office later discovered.

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