A Florida Atlantic University librarian was arrested for secretly filming students urinating and masturbating in a campus men's bathroom.
Seth Thompson, 40, allegedly recorded the men as they went to the bathroom with a hidden camera, and then posted the videos on various pornographic websites with the user name "JERKING_BUD." Some of the videos reportedly had names like "A college kid and his dad taking a leak at a public bathroom," and "My buddy jerking off in the stall next to me."
Thompson was arrested on Tuesday and charged with 13 counts of video voyeurism, WPTV reported.
"Thompson stated that he initially began recording these videos after seeing similar videos online, which gave him the impression that there are people who are enjoy [sic] viewing videos showing males masturbating and urinating," said a police report, the New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported.
Police say they were informed about the secret videos when a FAU student complained that Thompson was paying too much attention to him in the bathroom one day, the New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported. Another student then came forward and said there was a 30-second video of him urinating that someone posted on Pornhub.com
Authorities found the videos on a porn site that housed a secret collection of videos with men using the bathroom. Other sites the videos were posted on included Xtube.com and yuvutv.com, the New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported. Police were able to trace the videos back to Thompson.
Thompson admitted he used his iPhone to record the men, and then uploaded them to his FAU-issued MacBook laptop, WPTV reported.
Police said Thompson "did not believe those video recordings to be serious in nature; instead, because of the anonymity of the victims, he downplayed his actions and attributed them to mischief," according to the New Times Broward-Palm Beach reported.
Thompson reportedly resigned from his FAU position and is currently out on bond.
