UPDATE: 4 p.m. Voyeur arrested in HPER now faces child pornography charges

A man arrested for voyeurism at the Health, Physical Education and Recreation building Feb. 6 is now facing charges of child pornography, according to IU Police Department reports.\nChristopher A. Casady, 40, of 400 Terrace Drive, was originally investigated by IUPD officers after someone reported a man peeping in the men’s locker room. Casady was placed under arrest Feb. 6 for peeping and public intoxication and taken to the Monroe County Jail, said IUPD Capt. Jerry Minger.\nCasady was released from Monroe County Jail on Feb. 17 on a $700 cash bond.\nDuring questioning within the HPER, a video camera was found in a bag that Casady had with him. IUPD obtained a warrant to search the camera, along with Casady’s apartment. There, they found over 15 hours\nof personally recorded DVDs, including “questionable material.”\n“On the tape were images of males in places where they would have an expectation of privacy, in various stages of undress,” Minger said.\nRecently, some of the footage collected from his home was discovered to have came from the men’s bathroom at Bryan Park, 1001 S. Henderson St., Minger said. \nThe images appear to have been recorded within a stall in the male bathroom there, aimed at urinals. Most startling of the nature of the footage from Bryan Park is the age of those filmed.\n“Detectives determined that there were about 10 juveniles depicted,” Minger said. “About four of them were pre-teen, between ages five and eight.”\nUpon finding this information, the prosecutor in the case put in a request to amend the charges against Casady, including child pornography, a Class D Felony, Minger said. He already was facing a Class D Felony of voyeurism.\nThe Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department has a patrolman on duty during warmer months, but that position does not start until this weekend, said Director of Bloomington Parks and Recreation Department Mick Renneisen. Further, this person is responsible, within their eight hour daily shift, for patrolling 32 acres of Bloomington park property.\n“I think the response to anything like this is observation of others in the park,” Renneisen said. “Since we can’t be at all places to look at things, being a vigilant park user and reporting suspicious activity to the park or police is the best response.”