A New Brunswick man who videotaped a number of young children using the bathroom at his wife’s daycare in a Moncton home has been sentenced to a year in jail.

Jeffrey Adam Amos pleaded guilty to five counts of voyeurism and one count of possession of child pornography in April.

Police started investigating Amos in October 2012 after receiving a complaint from the parents’ of one of the children who attended the daycare.

She said she saw herself on Amos’ computer and that there was a camera in the bathroom.

Police later recovered video that showed the 32-year-old Moncton man entering the bathroom, putting the camera down, and covering it with a washcloth.

The court heard that Amos had set up the videocamera in 2012 and recorded girls as young as seven who attended the daycare.

The girls were filmed in various stages of undress and while they were on the toilet in the bathroom of the couple's home.

Police arrested Amos in February and seized computers and data storage equipment as part of the investigation.

The daycare at the centre of the case is now closed.

“She goes to counselling once a week, she’s in group counseling,” says the mother of one of the victims. “I really can’t trust anybody anymore. I mean, people I trusted for quite some time and knowing past history, they betrayed that trust.”

Amos received a one-year sentence, minus time already served, which means Amos will spend another seven months in jail.

He will face three years of probation upon his release.

Crown prosecutor Karen Lee Lamrock also asked for a long list of conditions by which Amos must abide upon his release, including no contact with anyone under the age of 16.

The one-year sentence was a joint recommendation from the Crown and the defence.

“I think it’s not near enough time,” says the mother. “He victimized five children. He betrayed everyone’s trust and he should have gotten more.”

Amos must comply with the sex offender registry for ten years and submit a sample for a sex offender DNA data base.

With files from CTV Atlantic's Jonathan MacInnis