Restaurant owner accused of recording customers facing child rape, porn charges

BROOKLINE, Mass. — A Brookline restaurant owner accused of videotaping customers was held on $7,500 cash bail Friday.

On Thursday, Brookline Police arrested 63-year-old Tze Chung, the owner of Taam China, for allegedly setting up a hidden camera in the restaurant bathroom and recording customers.

Police believe the video camera has been in place since 2015 and say Chung may have recorded multiple victims on as many as 20 different days over the past three years.

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Brookline Police released dates for the instances in hopes of finding the victims, listing 20 dates over three years, and telling customers to contact them if they were in the restaurant on any of these days.

Boston 25 News spoke with several employees at the restaurant Thursday night. One of the employees took our crews back and showed them the bathroom where police say it all happened, but some employees believe the owner was set up.

"I'm telling you, it's probably somebody who just wanted to get back at him for something... the food was bad," said an employee.

As for Chung, secretly recording a person isn't the only charge he's facing.

According to the Middlesex District Attorney's Office, Chung is facing much more serious charges: two counts of aggravated rape of a child, two counts of forcible rape of a child, three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child, posing a child in a state of nudity and four counts of possession of child pornography.

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