A State Of Undress

The Pennsylvania Supreme Court has suspended an attorney for three years with one year served retroactive to his interim suspension with remaining two years stayed with conditions of probation.

The joint submission submitted to the court recites that Respondent had been arrested by members of the Berks County District Attorneys Office

and charged with multiple criminal offenses for having surreptitiously recording his minor stepdaughter, N.R., in a state of undress without her consent by use of a covert recording device hidden in the bathroom of the family home.

Respondent’s wife “found the recording device in the pocket of one of Respondent’s old coats as she was gathering clothes for him to take following an argument between the couple” that led to a separation and eventual divorce.

She called the police who interviewed N.R. who denied Respondent had sexually abused her; the police did not uncover any additional evidence of criminal conduct.

Respondent pled no contest to a single count of endangering the welfare of a child and was sentenced to probation.

He was not convicted of a sex offense and there was no evidence that he is a sexual predator or suffers from a sexual disorder. (Mike Frisch)