Ex-West Penn employee accused of videotaping coworkers faces more charges

A former West Penn Hospital employee already accused of surreptitiously recording coworkers in the bathroom now faces 83 additional charges, some of which allege he recorded unsuspecting patients in an MRI room, according to court records.

Guy Caley, 52, of Canonsburg, was originally charged in July, months after a co-worker discovered a small camera taped to a chair in the hospital’s third-floor unisex bathroom, police said. Five victims – all hospital employees – were initially identified from the recordings recovered from the camera and Caley’s laptop.

Caley’s attorney, Joe Otte, declined to comment on the latest charges.

In a January interview with investigators, Caley said had spied on co-workers and he was “curious” about what the camera would capture, according to a criminal complaint.

During that interview Caley said he’d also recorded patients in the radiology department, specifically the room housing MRI and other imaging equipment, according to the complaint. He downloaded the recordings to a laptop, which police said Caley turned over to them.

An examination of the laptop turned up “dozens of files,” some of which contained only audio or only video, and others contained both, police said.

The videos mostly fell into two categories, investigators said: hospital employees using the bathroom or female patients in the imaging room in various states of undress.

The camera, when positioned in the bathroom, often captured the faces of the victims, and police were able to identify 16 of the victims. Investigators said there are more videos that weren’t clear enough, and so no one could be identified in them.

Footage from the imaging department, according to police, often showed Caley installing the camera then leaving, then returning a moment later with a female patient. Audio of the women discussing their medical testing with Caley was sometimes recorded, and other times it picked up conversations with family members who accompanied them, according to the complaint.

Police wrote that Caley usually then told the patient to change into a hospital gown and then left the room again. Investigators matched images of the victims from the recording to records of tests performed by Caley, according to the complaint.

Thirty-four patients were identified in the recordings, police said.

Caley is charged with 41 counts of intercepting communications and 42 counts of invasion of privacy. That’s in addition to three previous charges of intercepting communications and invasion of privacy.