Posted on 12/02/2016 5:27:08 AM PST by Gamecock
A year ago, Tim and Claire Gautreaux walked into a car dealership in Grapevine to buy a new Prius. They say the car-buying process was what you'd expect: long and tedious.
But what happened behind the scenes is now the focus of a lawsuit against the dealership and a former sales director, who also faces criminal charges.
Police believe Matthew Luke Thomas, the car sales director, found nude photos of Claire Gautreaux on her husband's phone and forwarded them to an email address for a swingers' website.
Thomas, 44, is charged in Tarrant County with computer security breach, a class B misdemeanor. This week, the Gautreauxs filed suit against Thomas, Texas Toyota of Grapevine and Toyota Motor North America in a Dallas County court, alleging breach of contract, intrusion, negligence and public disclosure of private facts.
Tim Gautreaux, 29, is a pastor at Hope Fellowship in Frisco. His wife works in retail management. The couple went to Texas Toyota in January 2015.
Later, he learned that photos of his wife getting in and out of their bathtub — from what he described as a "private moment" — had been sent to an email address that appeared to be linked to a swingers' website and a Garland couple, the lawsuit says.
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I showed this to my daughters and said “This girls is why you never allow a picture of you that you do not want me, your mom, your brothers, and the world to see.”
They got the point.
I will not type any of the things I’m thinking. I would sound like a cranky old termagant (played by Maggie Smith, of course).
Yes it is a risk. I know. I had been married long enough to have a 7-year old daughter, who while looking through some old stuff, came up with some uhhhhh compromising photos of an old girlfriend and asked her Mom who it was. I think I still have scars......
If someone is really so compelled there are these things called “cameras” with which you can take a photograph without everyone in the world being able to see it. Call me crazy, but I’ve heard they have digital models now.
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