VU Student Secretly Taped Women Undressing, Police Say

A Villanova University student is facing child pornography charges because police say he recorded three women, including an underage girl, undressing without their permission.

Police say the videos were uploaded to a pornography site from his dorm room at Villanova, from where Tyler Jones has since taken a leave of absence.

On Feb. 12, Jones was arraigned on the following charges: Dissemination of Child Pornography (felony), Possession of Child Pornography (felony), Invasion of Privacy (misdemeanor), Obscene Materials on the Internet (misdemeanor), and Criminal Use of a Communication Facility (felony).

According to Radnor Det. T.J. Schreiber, on Dec. 20, he received a phone call from a woman who said a friend told her that he saw a private video of her undressing on a pornographic Web site. She said she was secretly recorded in a bathroom while visiting a friend in Switzerland in July 2012.

Schreiber said that Jones admitted that he secretly hid his iPhone in the bathroom to record her, and then uploaded it to the porn site from his dorm room at Villanova. Schreiber said Jones did this to two other women over the past two years, one of them was 17 at the time.

Under the Invasion of Privacy statute, any upload of a video filmed without that person's consent is considered a violation, Schreiber said.

Jones posted bail and, as a condition, was required to turn his passport over to police. On Feb. 19, he waived his preliminary hearing in front of Judge Tuten, and all charges where bound for Court of Common Pleas in Media, where it will be assigned to an assistant district attorney.