Former Conn College student charged with 7 counts of felony voyeurism
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Carlos Antonio Alberti
New London — A 21-year-old former Connecticut College student has been charged with seven counts of felony voyeurism for allegedly taking photos of women in dormitory bathrooms this academic year, police said Friday.
Police said Carlos Antonio Alberti of Richmond, Mass., learned of the warrant for his arrest and turned himself in Friday morning.
Capt. Brian Wright said Alberti posted a $150,000 cash bond and was due March 15 in New London Superior Court.
The warrant for his arrest details seven incidents involving five female victims, but police said they found 213 shower stall videos on Alberti's iPhone XR and their investigation is ongoing.
At Conn, many dormitories house students of all genders and have "gender-inclusive" bathrooms, meaning anyone can use them. Most of the bathrooms have three shower stalls. A changing area with a stall door separates each curtained shower from the main bathroom.
The first incident police learned about happened on the morning of Oct. 17 in the Plant House dormitory. The victim told police she was showering when she saw a hand with white skin hoisting an iPhone over the shower curtain.
Startled, the victim screamed and heard the suspect run away. She wrapped her towel around her body and ran out, but never saw the suspect.
Officers and college staff canvassed the building but found no witnesses or suspects.
Similar reports emerged out of the Morrison House dormitory on Oct. 25 and again in Plant on Nov. 30, Dec. 5 and Jan. 23.
One victim told police she believed the suspect, who had entered an adjacent toilet stall while she was showering, was wearing maroon Nike sneakers with a white stripe. Another victim, who initially declined to speak to police, told Campus Safety she believed the phone had a black case with red around the camera. She noticed a phone pointed at her on two occasions.
At Conn, any student with an active college identification card can access any dormitory on campus.
Police requested logs from the card readers to see whether any students in common had accessed each dormitory in the 12 hours before each reported incident. Alberti's name came up and, based on the victims' descriptions of the suspect as a male with tan white skin, he became the primary suspect.
Police said Alberti on Feb. 7 agreed to speak with them in his room on the third floor of Plant House, where they found maroon Nike sneakers with a white stripe and a red iPhone XR with a black case.
Alberti unlocked the iPhone for Detective Keith Crandall, who said he looked through the folder of recently deleted items and found a video of a woman using the toilet in what appeared to be a dorm bathroom.
Police said Alberti "began to tremble and his voice started to crack." He allegedly admitted to recording videos of about 30 women in eight dormitories on campus.
He told police the recordings were a compulsion he felt he couldn't stop. He said at first he walked into bathrooms just in case a woman was showering, but then he began waiting in bathrooms for up to three hours for a woman to walk in.
During the conversation, police learned of a fifth victim whom Alberti said he had recorded twice.
Crandall, who later examined the contents of Alberti's phone, said women in each of the 213 videos were either preparing to enter the shower, in the running shower or using the stall area to towel off after showering. None of the women seemed to realize she was being recorded.
The college said it moved to bar Alberti from the campus shortly after his Feb. 7 interview with police.
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