The scandal over so called "Dr.", Kevin Lee continues to widen and tonight 7news has obtained evidence which shows how he secretly videotaped his clients.
We'll get to that in a minute, but first some background. As has been reported, a small portion of the files were stolen - not by a computer technician - but more likely a victim of a secret taping. That person tried to blackmail Lee with it.
He got a third party involved to help fend off the blackmailer, which is when the evidence of thousands of files came forward - and those were turned over to the police. Six hundred of those files depict Kevin Lee and his female colleague engaging in acts of a sexual nature with and his male and female patrons; appearances suggest those acts were consensual.
But the videotaping was not consensual and the clients had no clue that Lee was capturing the massage sessions from multiple hidden cameras in the massage parlour.
Today 7news gained access to some of those recordings, which show how Dr. Lee set up the cameras.
Monica Bodden reports:
What you are seeing here is the massage bed - as Dr. Lee who comes into the frame now sets the camera up on a shelf - hidden among those same boxes he is now getting off the bed
He studies it for a while and then lies on the bed to make sure it is positioned properly to see how it will capture his patients as their legs are contorted in the positions he will put them into during the massage.
He then comes back to the camera making sure it is concealed and checks it one more time to make sure it captures them in a state of rest as he repositions it to its hiding spot and checked it one more time to make sure he captures his victims faces and bodies.
On another recording, he appears to be talking to someone or possibly himself - as he again positions the camera for an optimal view.
As you can see, the resolution is very high quality and all the cameras - he had at least three in use per session - are reported to be very high tech - and would record wirelessly unto a hard drive.
And if you're wondering about the blackness at the edges of the frame, that is from the edge of the soap box he concealed the camera in.
It's clear and disturbing evidence of profoundly creepy - even demented - behavior - but is it a crime? We have spoken to two attorneys who say that there are no privacy laws which specifically protect persons from being taped without their consent.
Still, investigators are trying to determine if the victims of the secret tapings were in their full senses - or if they had been somehow induced into a daze.
Still, the Belize Police Department has requested his return from Los Angeles to face charges, so we'll have to wait to see what those charges are.
But right now, the greatest worry for his unsuspecting victims are the hundreds of files which are presently in police custody. Credible reports say that the files include wives of diplomats and other prominent figures in society.
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