“17 of her photos had been texted to an unfamiliar phone number”
That is dumb. It’s Radio Shack, they don’t have USB adapters for phones there?
If the employee knew anything about iPhones, and had a brain, he would have done exactly that -- plug the iPhone into a Mac with a USB cable, bring up the Image Capture app, read the photos into the Mac, and no record of anything.
What a maroon.