Peeping Tom Tristan Wootten has had his sentence reduced from two years’ jail to 17 months’ home detention. Source: Channel 9

Electrician Tristan Wootten has been found guilty of setting up an elaborate system of cameras to spy on his tenants while they were in the bathroom.

He was initially sentenced to two years’ jail, but he successfully appealed the decision last week and is now allowed to serve out a reduced sentence — 17 months — in home detention.

Amy Petersen was only 18 she rented a house off Wootten on the NSW central coast with her partner and another young woman in 2012.

Wootten secretly filmed and watched her in some of her most private and intimate moments — showering, undressing — through a tiny hidden camera in the bathroom ceiling fan.

When she discovered that he had violated her privacy in this way, she was overcome with a mixture of emotions.

“I was extremely upset and then I got really, really angry. It was horrible,” Miss Peterson told news.com.au.

Fighting back against a lenient sentence … Victim Amy Peterson. Source: Supplied

As well as the indignity of being the victim of such a crime, Miss Peterson had to relive the trauma again and again through extensive interviews with police and a harrowing experience in court.

“They showed the video of me naked, showering in open court where he could watch it again,” she said.

“It was ridiculously horrible. I was bawling my eyes out to the judge.”

Today, aged 21, she is fighting back against his reduced sentence, which she calls a “massive injustice”.

“I’m left with lifelong scars. It’s greatly affected me,” Miss Peterson said.

“I can’t go to the shopping centre. I can’t even get changed in the change rooms.

“Every time we’ve had to look at a house, if there’s a ceiling fan, we can’t live there.

“It’s changed the way I live my life, but he is not showing any remorse for what he has done.”

Miss Peterson has launched a change.org petition to pressure NSW Attorney-General Brad Hazzard to restore Wootten’s original two-year jail sentence.

“I always thought I would be safe in my own home. He took that away from me, made me terrified and so powerless,” Miss Peterson writes on the petition.

“I can’t go on knowing this man won’t serve a single day in jail. It also sends a terrifying message — that violating someone’s privacy and sexual harassment isn’t a serious crime.”

Click here to sign Miss Peterson’s change.org petition.