Crime & Safety
High School Employee Charged With Recording Girls Inside Changing Room: Police
A media services technician working at Walter Johnson High School was arrested and charged for filming a girls' changing room, police said.
BETHESDA, MD — James Mulhern III, a 43-year-old man from Clarksburg, is facing a felony charge for recording underage girls inside a changing room at Walter Johnson High School.
The Montgomery County Police Department said Thursday that Mulhern worked as a media services technician at the Bethesda school.
Court records show Mulhern was charged with sex abuse of a minor.
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Authorities were alerted to Mulhern after two students found a video camera on Tuesday in the control booth of the high school's theater.
The memory card, reviewed by one of the students, contained video showing a man putting the camera inside a changing room used by theater students. Two teen girls were later seen changing their clothes for a performance.
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The footage was later emailed to the school principal, who identified the man as Mulhern. Police were notified of the case on Wednesday.
Search warrants executed at the high school and at Mulhern's home in Clarksburg resulted in the collection of "several electronic devices" and "items of evidentiary value," according to police.
Mulhern is being held without bond at the Montgomery County Central Processing Unit. A bond hearing is scheduled for Friday at 1 p.m.
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