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S03 E05 - Spiritual Armor - Part 1

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A man who lied his way into an elementary school and recorded a teacher in a bathroom stall has been sentenced to five years probation, according to reports from multiple news sites.

Brian Mintmier reached a plea deal on Tuesday on charges in three different cases, KDKA reported.

He has also been ordered to stay in a mental health treatment program until a judge deems him fit for release. He is also not allowed to go anywhere near any school and is to have no contact with any children. But he is not required to register as a sex offender, WPXI said.

According to TribLive, police said Mintmier arrived at Ramsey Elementary School in Monroeville, Allegheny County, on March 15 and asked someone on staff to allow him to use the restroom.

The staff member, who has since been placed on leave, allowed Mintmier to use the restroom unattended.

Police said he stayed in a bathroom stall for 40 minutes, and placed his cellphone under another stall and photographed a teacher during that time.

A 10-year-old girl in the bathroom saw someone holding a cellphone under her stall and reported it to school staff, TribLive said.

Mintmier was then detained at the school until police arrived. Officers found a box cutter in his pocket and seized his cellphone.

Upon reviewing the phone, police also found video of Mintmier from Feb. 17 in which he was following a 14-year-old girl and then exposed himself in public, TribLive said.

Mintmier pleaded guilty to charges from three different cases, including possession of instruments of crime; possession of weapons on school property; stalking; tampering with evidence; indecent exposure; harassment; and two counts of simple assault for an incident on May 31 involving his mother and stepfather.

In that incident, police charging at his family members with a knife and was “delusional, shouting off incoherently and making up stories.”

Mintmier’s defense attorney, Casey White, told TribLive that he suffers from schizophrenia.

“He wasn’t a predator,” White said. “He was a man who was sick, unmedicated, delusional and under the vicious grips of mental health disease.”

Deputy District Attorney Jennifer DiGiovanni told Judge Beth A. Lazzara that Mintmier has no previous criminal history, and that the officers on the cases, as well as the victims, agreed to the plea, TribLive reported.

If Mintmier does well in the mental health program, his probation could end early, Judge Lazzara said.

But, she also told him, “if you fail, you’re going to end up back in the Allegheny County Jail,” TribLive reported.

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