Sheriff Charges Clearwater Man With Child Porn, Video Voyeurism

CLEARWATER, FL — Pinellas County Sheriff's detectives have charged a 54-year-old man with possession of child pornography, obscene materials and video voyeurism.

Detectives began their investigation a year ago after receiving a tip from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. The tip led detectives to Scott Lippert of 66th Street North in unincorporated Clearwater.

During a search of his home, detectives said they recovered numerous images and videos on Lippert's personal laptop computer depicting child pornography. They said they also discovered a video depicting sexual contact between a woman and a male dog, and recovered several videos from a hidden recording device in Lippert's bathroom.

According to detectives, Lippert hid the recording device in his bathroom and filmed female victims age 7 to 44 without their knowledge.

During an interview with detectives, Lippert admitted to viewing child pornography and storing the files on his computer. He also admitted to uploading the videos from the bathroom recording device to his computer, according to detectives.

Detectives arrested Lippert Wednesday evening and charged him with 10 counts of possession of child pornography, one count of prohibition of certain acts in connection with obscene material and six counts of video voyeurism.