At around two in the morning, a man looks into several windows of a house not his, and stops at a window where a child is sleeping. What crime is committed?

• A. Peeping
• B. Burglary
• C. Trespass
• D. Vandalism

Answer: (A)

Peeping is the focus here: it involves spying into someone’s private space without consent. The man is outside a house and looks into a window where a child is sleeping. He isn’t entering the home or damaging anything, so burglary and vandalism don’t fit. Trespass would require entering or remaining on the property without permission, and here there’s no indication he actually entered. The crucial element is the act of observing into a private dwelling, which violates the occupant’s reasonable expectation of privacy and can be criminal, especially when a sleeping child is involved.