INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
Cristian Gill placed a device that took pictures, videos of female, male and juveniles in a bathroom
A gymnastics and cheerleading teacher has been charged after
he allegedly put video surveillance equipment in a bathroom at a cheerleading program's facility in Rockville, Maryland, officials
said.Cristian Gill, 21, of Rockville, placed a device that took pictures and videos of female and male adults and juveniles in a bathroom at
the Shockwave Allstars cheerleading program on Southlawn Court, according to Montgomery County Police.Gill was arrested Wednesday and is
He has a bond review Thursday
He is charged with several counts of conducting visual surveillance of another person in a private place without consent.The incident began
when an employee alerted the owner of the business on Feb
9 that he found electronic devices in a bathroom, police said
The owner was out of town and told him to leave it at the facility.Three days later, police said, Gill asked to meet the owner in the
parking lot of the cheerleading facility and handed him the device and equipment that the other employee had found.Gill then told the owner
that the device was a camera that he had put in the bathroom and that he had "never recorded anything," police said in a statement
Gill then showed him where in the bathroom he had put the device.The owner asked him to leave the facility, and police were called.After
searching his home, police found 49 photographs of female and male adults and juveniles that had been taken at the cheerleading program
bathroom on an electronic tablet, according to police
The victims have been notified, police said.Gill had worked at the facility for two years, according to charging documents, and he held
private, one-on-one sessions for students and taught group lessons with other teachers
He told investigators that he had put the recording device at the cheerleading facility about 20 times in a two-month period.According to
charging documents, a search of Gill's iPhones found that he had searched the Internet for such topics as "spy cam in public restroom, what
kind of lawyer do I need, and what kind of jail do you go to for violating video cam laws."He also did searches for "max charges of peeping
tom cat" and "Do you have to be charged for child pornography in order for you to get a free consultation"Officials said forensic evidence
also found that other videos and images from the bathroom had been on the tablet but had been deleted.(This story has not been edited by
staff and is auto-generated from a syndicated feed.)
