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Kevin Lee Comes Home: What Charge Will He Face?
posted (November 11, 2011)
Kevin Lee - the masseuse and self-described Doctor who secretly videotaped hundreds of his clients was returned to Belize to face charges today.

Lee - who was being held in an INS detention center in Los Angeles - came in on the midday American Airlines flight from Miami. He was escorted by two US Marshalls and handed over to US Embassy Security personnel on the tarmac. They then handed him over to the Belize City CIB investigators who escorted him to a waiting pickup.

Lee pulled his windbreaker over his face as the police led him away - refusing to have our cameras tape his face. Police took him down to Belize City and into custody at the Queen Street Police Station where he is now detained pending charges. What will those charges be? As we've told you, Belize's privacy laws are out-dated and we've heard from experienced attorney that there's no crime against what he did - as creepy and hideous as it was.

But, 7news has learnt that there is a female complainant in the case- and the DPP's office is preparing charges. We understand the main charge will be aggravated assault of an indecent nature - which is for sexual offences where the accused has touched or fondled a person. He is expected to be arraigned on that charge by Monday morning. As we've reported before the Lee case is sensational because he secretly recorded thousands of clients - some of them prominent persons - in semi-nude states receiving massages.

As we've shown you, Lee had multiple hidden cameras concealed in various parts of his massage room. This very creepy video shows him positioning himself the same way he would do to his clients to optimally position the cameras. This happened secretly for years until a small batch of 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 a female colleague engaging in acts of a sexual nature with 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.

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