PITTSBURGH — A former West Penn Hospital worker is facing 83 new charges after he recorded at least 21 fellow employees and 34 patients in a bathroom and an imaging room, police said.
Guy Caley, 52, was first charged in July after an investigation stemming from a camera found in a unisex employee bathroom in December. Five workers were identified as victims in that instance, in which a small camera had been taped to a chair with the lens facing toward a toilet, police said.
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Caley told investigators he had previously used the same camera several other times to take video of people in the bathroom. He would take the camera home and download the videos to his laptop.
In a new criminal complaint filed Wednesday, it was revealed that additional hospital employees, as well as radiology department patients, were identified as victims and that other cameras had been used by Caley.
Police said Caley told them most, if not all, of the recordings of patients were taken in a room housing the MRI and other imaging equipment. All of the patients were women. In addition, three non-patients who accompanied them into the imaging room were identified from the videos.
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“The majority of the videos appeared to follow two distinctive patterns; to capture hospital employees using the bathroom toilet, and to capture nude or partially nude female patients while in an imaging room within the Radiology Department,” the complaint said.
Investigators looked at videos that were taken over a two-year period, in 2018 and 2019.
Some of the videos captured Caley placing the cameras, according to the complaint.
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Charges against Caley, who no longer works at West Penn Hospital, include invasion of privacy.
Authorities believe there might be more victims.
Allegheny Health Network released the following statement on Thursday about the latest allegations against Caley:
“The allegations described in these criminal charges against a former West Penn Hospital employee are appalling, and West Penn condemns his actions in the strongest possible terms. We are dismayed that such a reprehensible act was committed on our campus. At Allegheny Health Network and West Penn, we place the utmost priority on safeguarding the privacy and dignity of our employees, patients, and visitors, and we deeply regret that some have been unknowingly affected by this criminal act. AHN and West Penn would like to thank the Highmark Health police department and the Allegheny County District Attorney’s office, who thoroughly investigated this case over the last several months, leading to today’s charges. We will continue to cooperate fully with authorities as their investigation and prosecution proceed.”
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