ST. CHARLES COUNTY — An O’Fallon, Missouri, man is accused of illegally filming up the skirts of hundreds of women as they were shopping in the St. Louis area.
Kevin Clayton, 32, was charged Monday with two counts of invasion of privacy — just months after he pleaded guilty to a similar charge — and police say they think there are hundreds more victims.
Clayton was charged after two women called the police on June 2 from an O’Fallon department store and said he had put his cellphone in a shopping basket and pushed the basket underneath their skirt and dress to secretly record them while they shopped.
In an interview with police, Clayton admitted to recording the women without their consent.
“Clayton explained he does not do this often and had deleted the videos from his phone,” police wrote in court documents.
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But police say when they searched the deleted items folder on Clayton’s phone, they found more than 200 similar videos of women.
And about six months ago, Clayton was sentenced to five years probation after confessing to recording up the skirts and dresses of women in September 2021 at a discount retailer in Lake Saint Louis. A search of his phone at that time found 39 videos and thousands of photographs of women that dated back more than a year.
Clayton is being held at the St. Charles County Jail on a $20,000 cash-only bond. If he is released on bond, a judge has ordered him to wear a GPS tracking device and not have any contact with the women in his videos.
Katie Rickerson, a spokesperson for the St. Charles County Prosecuting Attorney’s office, said St. Charles County prosecutors are asking a judge to revoke his probation from the 2021 case. A hearing in that case has not been set.
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