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Rutgers students accused of using hidden dorm camera to video sex
Published: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 2:56 PM Updated: Tuesday, September 28, 2010, 4:25 PM
View of Old Queens Hall at Rutgers University in New Brunswick.PISCATAWAY — Two Rutgers University students have been charged with invading another student's privacy by secretly placing a camera in the student's dormitory room and transmitting a sexual encounter over the Internet.
Dharun Ravi, 18, of Plainsboro and Molly Wei,18, of Princeton, have been charged with two counts each of invasion of privacy for using the camera to view and transmit a live image of an 18-year-old student in Piscataway on Sept. 19, Middlesex County Prosecutor Bruce Kaplan announced today.
Kaplan said Ravi is also charged with two additional counts of invasion of privacy for attempting to use the camera to view and transmit another encounter involving the same 18-year-old student on Sept. 21.
Wei surrendered to Rutgers University police Monday and was released on her own recognizance. Ravi surrendered to Rutgers police this morning and was released on $25,000 bail.
Kaplan said an investigation began after someone tipped off Rutgers police that the camera had been placed in the 18-year-old student's dorm room without permission. Police subsequently filed the charges against Wei and Ravi.
The prosecutor said under New Jersey's invasion-of-privacy statutes, it is a fourth degree crime to collect or view images depicting nudity or sexual contact involving another individual without that person's consent. It is a third degree crime to transmit or distribute such images.
Anyone with information on this, or similar incidents, is asked to call the Rutgers University Police Department at (732) 932-8025, or the county prosecutor's office at (732) 745-3300.
(nj.com)
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