- A Michigan man was charged with 30 counts of child pornography
- Nickolas Lee, 30, hid a camera in a teenage girl’s room, disguised as a charger
- Lee had 294 explicit images of small children on his phone
A Michigan healthcare worker was caught with 294 pornographic images of little girls after placing a secret camera in the bedroom of one of his clients.
Nickolas Lee, 30, was charged with 30 counts of child pornography following a recent investigation by the Genesee Sheriff’s Department’s Human Oppression Strike Team, or GHOST
He was arrested after relatives of a teenage girl discovered a hidden camera disguised as a mobile phone charger in her bedroom.
They immediately turned off the camera and went to police, according to Genesee County Sheriff Christopher Swanson.
An investigation found nearly 300 explicit images of underage girls on Lee’s cellphone, police said.
Nickolas Lee, 30, was charged with 30 counts of child pornography following a recent police investigation
Swanson said the images were of young children under 10 years old.
He described the pornographic images: ‘Everything you can imagine is allowed in a consensual sexual relationship, yet the images of these individuals are pre-pubescent.
“These are young girls in single digits with grown men. It involves exploitation, penetration and rape of these young victims.”
Lee allegedly had access to the victim’s bedroom because he was a caregiver for a “family member with special needs,” the sheriff said.
“This right here is the creepy white van of the 21st century,” Swanson said of Lee.
Lee now faces 30 charges and is being held on a $600,000 cash bond.
According to Sheriff Christopher Swanson, he was arrested after relatives of a teenage girl discovered a hidden camera disguised as a cell phone charger in her bedroom.
Swanson said the images were of young children of all ages in the single digits
Eight other accused pedophiles were arrested for child sexual abuse in the GHOST investigation, Swanson told a news conference on Friday.
Two suspects, a 29-year-old and a 23-year-old, have not yet been formally charged for the alleged crimes, he said.
Five of the suspects have been charged with soliciting a child for immoral purposes, using a computer to commit a crime and child sexual abuse, Swanson said.
The six identified on Friday were Stosh Gizinski, 39, Nickolas Lee, 30, Clifford Mitts, 69, Devin Raymond, 44, Jesus Valverde-Texta, 29, and Jared Weaver, 31.