Thai was caught in a BC bathroom stall with some of his snooping devices that same month, according to the affidavit. Two Boston College students helped break open the case when they reported being taped in the men’s room at the Heights in February of 2018, the feds said. Walsh said he is “outraged,” adding the “allegations are incredibly disturbing and counselors are being made available to any students or faculty that need additional support.” O’Brien said the suspect gained entrance to the school “outside of regular school hours.” He added nobody was in danger during the investigation. They are also beefing up security, adding staff at entrances, “expanding” the police presence and installing more security cameras. Interim BPS Superintendent Laura Perille said she is “horrified by the allegations” and the Latin school administration is working to support “victims of this disturbing situation.” “We are reviewing our safety protocols to understand how this happened and how to prevent it from happening again,” he added. The nature of the investigation was confidential from the start,” said school spokesman Dan O’Brien. “We informed BLS families about this investigation when we were given clearance by law enforcement authorities, including the FBI, the United States Attorney’s Office, and other agencies. Other stunned students told the Herald they were shocked to learn of the news from reporters. Parents of the five alleged victims were alerted to the discovery of the video in the past weeks, according to the affidavit, and those parents “positively identified” their teen-age boys - including one who was only 13 or 14 years old at the time. “While recording, it appears that Thai would simultaneously view what the camera was recording on a cellphone or a tablet device in his possession” and adjust the lens, according to an FBI affidavit.īoston Latin officials were made aware of the bathroom video a year ago, but only informed all parents in a letter sent out Monday. He allegedly planted other cameras at “Harvard, MIT, BU, Northeastern, Bunker Hill, Target and several malls, airports and in foreign countries,” the U.S. District Court in Boston and faces up to 30 years in jail for each of the five counts. He was held on $10,000 bond with home detention at his initial appearance in U.S. Thai was charged Monday with five counts of sexual exploitation of boys at the Latin School. It is public, but admissions - based on an entrance test and grades - are very competitive, and it is regularly ranked among the top high schools in the nation. Thai graduated in 2000 from Boston Latin, the nation’s oldest school. He has massive video files going back nearly two decades that federal agents are still combing through, the U.S. An alumnus of one of the nation’s top high schools allegedly returned to the campus to secretly record boys in the restrooms.Įric Tran Thai, 36, of Dorchester, Mass., is accused of planting cameras in restrooms at Boston Latin School 10 times over a one-year period.
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