A Dickson City man who told investigators he secretly videotaped his wife showering up to 100 times over more than a year was sentenced Wednesday to three to 23½ months in Lackawanna County Prison for erasing the recordings.

Kevan Scott Bailey, 47, who pleaded guilty June 12 to a single count of tampering with evidence, apologized for his actions, telling Judge Vito Geroulo he truly regretted how they affected his three children.

“I honestly had no criminal intent when I did what I did. ... I was wrong,” Mr. Bailey told the court.

In what Mr. Bailey’s attorney, Joseph Toczydlowski, described as a unique case, Mr. Bailey was charged with invasion of privacy and tampering with evidence after his now-estranged wife discovered his cellphone hidden in a bathroom window at their Scott Twp. home and recording her when she emerged from the shower Dec. 18.

Upset by the violation of her privacy and concerned because her minor daughter commonly used the same bathroom to shower, the victim took the phone to the district attorney’s office, which found nothing on the device when investigators attempted to recover the shower video the following day.

Mr. Bailey was interviewed by detectives Jan. 23 and admitted videotaping his wife in the shower without her consent or knowledge on at least 80 to 100 occasions over a 14-month period. He said he erased the Dec. 18 recording remotely using his work email and emphatically denied videotaping anyone else in his family.

Mr. Bailey’s wife, who court records show filed for divorce in August, told Judge Geroulo her husband is a manipulative liar whose remorse “is more related to getting caught” than to regret. She said she believes her husband still has videos of both her and her children and asked the court to protect them from him.

Judge Geroulo called the impact of Mr. Bailey’s behavior on his children, now 19, 16 and 13, “something I find very disturbing.”

The judge said the children have a right to be concerned their father secretly recorded them and told Mr. Bailey he could have given them “great peace of mind” had he not erased the evidence.

“This seems to have created a whole new tragic dynamic,” the judge said. “ I don’t know if your wife and daughters will ever get over it.”

Judge Geroulo ordered Mr. Bailey to have no contact with his wife or daughters and to participate in a sex offender treatment program at the jail.

He denied a request by Mr. Toczydlowski to delay the jail sentence to give Mr. Bailey time to get his affairs in order.

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