Let's not go to the videotape: A former village worker here has been sentenced after pleading guilty Tuesday to secretly videotaping teenage girls in a dressing room at the village's art center.
Scott Wagmeister was sentenced to a one-year conditional discharge on three of the thirteen counts to which he pleaded guilty, the Chicago Tribune says, and he must also finish thirty days in the Cook County Sheriff's Work Alternative Program.
For the remaining ten counts, Wagmeister was sentenced to a year's court supervision and counseling. Prosecutors agreed to drop six more counts against him, the Tribune says.
Wagmeister was a technical supervisor at the Prairie Center for the Arts when he was arrested last month. He was accused of videotaping over a dozen teenage girl performers illegally. Prosecutors said he had rigged a small camera and recorder in a ceiling over a mirror in a bathroom during closing performances of a production of Grease. Two performers found the video device and reported it to police in October.
Wagmeister was fired shortly thereafter, the Tribune says.
"I must say this is outrageous," said Judge Sharon Sullivan before sentencing Wagmeister. "These are young girls at a performing arts center. They're left by their parents at a place where the parents think they're safe." Wagmeister offered no comment, but his attorney, Jacqueline Perkins, told Sullivan he was "very sorry" for what he had done and was undergoing counseling.
