In late February at the Abilene (Texas) YMCA, members of the boys’ junior high swim team caught a man holding a cell phone over a changing stall. That man, now identified as Bradon Pennington, has been arrested for invasive visual recording and is being held in Taylor County Jail.
According to Big Country, the boys' junior high swim team had just finished practice on Feb. 26, and were changing in the YMCA locker room when one athlete noticed a man “holding a cell phone over the stall.” The student called out “cell phone,” to alert his teammate, and the man moved, holding the phone to his ear instead to pretend he was making a call. The man swiftly left the locker room.
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Police responded to the scene and reviewed surveillance footage showing the suspect entered the boys' locker room just before the swim team. The YMCA identified him as Pennington from day pass records.
Pennington was arrested after the athlete identified him from a lineup, and he confessed to police that he “did it out of curiosity and felt wrong about it for weeks.” Pennington claimed he did not keep the video.
In a statement from Pennington’s family, they said he was “suffering long-term residual effects from a head injury” sustained during a car accident.
