A man accused of recording men and boys showering at a Bastrop County Cub Scout camp in July on Tuesday was indicted with two counts of improper photo/visual recording without consent in 21st District Court.
Cory Cason, 24, of Round Rock turned himself into authorities on July 16 nearly a month after a 10-year-old boy discovered a camera hidden in the base of a shower at Camp Tom Wooten in Bastrop County during a camp session in late June.
Boy Scout officials confirmed in a letter sent to parents on July 15 that Cason had been a camp staffer from 2006-2014, but that he had been fired and was precluded from participating in the scouting program.
Improper photo/visual recording without consent is a state jail felony charge that carries up two years in jail. The indictment signed by 21st District Clerk Sarah Loucks charges Cason with intentionally invading the privacy of two individuals and recording, by electronic means, their “visual images.”
Cason’s bail was set at $200,000. He was released from the Bastrop County Jail on July 25, according to jail records.
According to an arrest affidavit, Cason had admitted to putting a camera in the shower “in hopes of recording nude males.”
The sheriff’s office seized Cason’s laptop, two hard drives, two cellphones and a video camera, the affidavit said. Two boys younger than 11 and two men were seen showering on one recording that authorities recovered, according to the affidavit, and numerous images of naked boys and girls that Cason downloaded from a nudist website were also found.
Authorities told the Austin American-Statesman in July that sexual assault wasn’t suspected and that Cason had been cooperative.
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