The women said they felt violated. That they are no longer trusting. That they look in every vent and under every table, searching for a hidden camera that could once again disrupt their lives.

All of it, they told a judge on Monday, because a medical technician at West Penn Hospital breached their trust and violated their privacy.

Guy Caley, 53, of Canonsburg, was ordered to serve 11 to 22 months in the Allegheny County Jail, to be followed by 10 years of probation after pleading guilty in May to 89 criminal counts, including invasion of privacy and intercepting communications. He must register as a sex offender for 15 years.

In addition, he must pay nearly $23,000 in restitution to cover the costs of therapy and medication for some of the victims.

There also is civil litigation pending.

Caley admitted that he hid video cameras inside an imaging room and a bathroom, where he recorded mostly female cancer patients in various stages of undress.

The cameras were discovered after a co-worker found one taped to a chair in a unisex bathroom, police said.

Dozens of videos, captured in and around the hospital’s MRI room, were found on Caley’s laptop computer.

A total of 58 people were identified as victims.

During a lengthy sentencing hearing before Allegheny County Judge Bruce Beemer, two of the women who were the subject of videos spoke about the impact of the crime on them. The prosecution asked the court to allow the women to speak anonymously.

The first woman told the judge the recording of her occurred the day before a scheduled surgery to remove a malignant melanoma.

Every time she must visit the doctor, now, she said, she has a panic attack.

She can no longer use public restrooms and has to have weekly counseling.

“My spirit is broken, and I look at people differently,” she said. “We were supposed to trust health care providers. They took an oath to help people like us, not victimize us.”

The second woman told Beemer of the embarrassment of having to meet with detectives to identify her nude self in a 30-minute video they recovered from Caley’s computer.

“Now, I can’t even tend to my own garden without worrying that someone is watching me,” she said.

She spoke, too, of the breach of trust she felt.

“This man looked me in the eye and told me everything will be fine,” she said.

She still worries about who may have seen the video of her.

Assistant District Attorney Michael Ahwesh told the court there was no evidence Caley uploaded the files online or allowed anyone else to view them.

When he spoke, Caley said he never shared the files with anyone else.

“Why did you keep them?” Beemer asked.

“My own personal sickness,” Caley said. “I can assure the victims they did not go anywhere and were not seen by anyone.”

Caley told the judge he was trying to reconcile why he committed the crimes so that he could prevent them in the future.

“I betrayed the trust of so many people,” he said.

“What I did was reprehensible, hurtful, inexcusable,” he said. “I did not consider the harm I was causing.”

Ahwesh asked the court to impose some period of incarceration on the defendant.

“Somehow, his moral compass got so screwed up, he lost the moral boundaries all of us impose on ourselves,” the prosecutor said. “I think he needs some time to get his morality back.”

Defense attorney Joe Otte told the court that his client realizes the immense harm he’s caused not only to those directly affected by his crimes, but the broader health care community.

“He understands he breached the public trust. He understands, between his patients, he is the person who is supposed to be helping them.”

In ordering Caley to jail, Beemer said that anything less than that would undermine the seriousness of the crime and its impact on the victims. He denied a request for Caley to self-report to jail, and the defendant was immediately taken into custody.

“They’re not only medically vulnerable, they’re emotionally vulnerable,” the judge said. “And you’re the person that’s supposed to create a safe space for them. You took something from them they, just simply, can’t get back.

“You’ve just inflicted so much pain.”

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