BOSTON — A 39-year-old Boston man has been sentenced to 12 years in prison after filming people without their consent in numerous men’s restrooms across a number of Boston-area schools, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Massachusetts announced Thursday. He will also require five years of supervised release.
That man, identified as Eric Tran Thai, pleaded guilty to two counts of child pornography possession after police found that he had made roughly 45 recordings of male students in the Boston Latin High School bathroom. The videos were created between February and December 2017.
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Thai was originally arrested back in February 2018 when two Boston College students reported to police they had been videotaped while using an on-campus men’s bathroom. Charges related to those two separate incidents are still pending in Middlesex County Superior Court.
Following that arrest, investigators searched Thai’s home and discovered numerous electronic folders labeled with the names of different Boston schools - BU, Bunker Hill, Boston Latin High School, Harvard, MIT, and Northeastern - as well as some with the names of different malls and airports.
The federal child pornography charges stem from the videos found in the Boston Latin folder.
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