NORTH OLMSTED, Ohio (WOIO) – A North Olmsted soccer store owner is accused of taking inappropriate photos of his customers.

Two mothers say they caught the owner of Frontline Soccer taking upskirt photos. The first woman says the victim was her teen daughter. She reported it to police but it wasn’t until the same thing happened to another woman seven years later that police finally arrested him.

“If it can happen to me, it can happen to anybody, especially our daughters,” said alleged victim Priscilla Tomlinson.

In September, Tomlinson was shopping at Frontline Soccer in North Olmsted for her daughter’s soccer supplies. When the store’s owner Kevin Ebeneger started helping her. She noticed something was off.

“He was at the end of the aisle like bent over like this and I was like oh my God he thinks I’m stealing what is going on? He had his phone down by his waist,” Tomlinson recalled.

Tomlinson was horrified when she saw Ebeneger snap a photo underneath her dress. When he walked past her, she saw the picture on his phone.

“It was a picture of the back of my legs and up my dress,” she said. “I had shorts on, and I had black shorts on and he swiped it away and he made eye contact with me and I’m like Oh my God what am I gonna do? Is this real life?”

The Grafton mom left the store shaken up and unsure what to do but went to the police department and filed a report.

“I was so embarrassed,” she admitted. “I was just like oh my God I can’t believe that he, thank Goodness I had shorts on.”

But then she found out she wasn’t alone. Another mother had filed a similar report in 2017.

“You could see he had his camera down like in the position like in the waist-high position taking pictures,” said Jessica Schildwacher-Resor. “I felt disgusted mostly because of her age, you know she’s 14 years old just started high school and someone’s taking a picture of her rear end. It made me very uncomfortable.”

She filed a police report.

“I didn’t think it would take seven years for someone else to make a complaint,” said Schildwacher-Resor.

Tomlinson was shocked.

“I was like oh my God my daughter just turned 11 like at some point they get old enough where they’re gonna run up to the soccer stuff where the school has their uniforms and get their own stuff,” Tomlinson said. “They’re kids and they’d all be walking in there so how many photos would or could be happening?”

Police got a warrant for Ebeneger’s cell phone and discovered the store owner had a secure folder on his phone with random photos of female customers bending over.

“Me and Priscilla are both hoping that this will bring more people forward so that he doesn’t get away with it,” said Schildwacher-Resor. “The unfortunate part is that most of it was being done without people’s knowledge it was from behind them, when they bent over, things like that.”

In November the police arrested 40-year-old Kevin Ebeneger and charged him with voyeurism, a criminal misdemeanor.

Ebenger’s pled guilty to the crime in December. He’ll be back in court on Tuesday.

If you think you may have been a victim of this man, contact North Olmsted detectives.

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