Gym Teacher Put Recording Device In Faculty Bathroom: Parsippany Police

PARSIPPANY, NJ — An elementary school teacher is accused of planting a recording device inside a faculty bathroom at the school, Parsippany police said in a statement.

Christopher Esnes, 40, from Gillette, was arrested on Thursday after police say he placed the device inside an adults-only bathroom at Littleton School in Parsippany. Esnes is a physical education teacher at the school.

The recording device was capturing images of the toilet area and ran for an undetermined amount of time, police said in a statement. No footage of a juvenile has been found, police said, and the investigation remains under investigation.

Esnes will not be back in the school, district officials told Patch.

"The teacher has been suspended and banned from Littleton Elementary School as well as all District properties," Joan F. Benos, a public information officer for the Parsippany-Troy Hills School District, told Patch.

Esnes is charged with invasion of privacy in the third degree and was released at his own recognizance pending a court date.

District officials have not yet returned a request for comment.

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