California father arrested, charged with child pornography after wife found hidden camera in bathroom

A California father was arrested Thursday on little one pornography expenses after his spouse allegedly discovered a hidden digital camera of their visitor lavatory that turned up greater than 900 pictures of kid pornography, the Redding Police Division introduced.

Police arrested Ryan Rovito, 34, of Redding, a metropolis about 160 miles north of Sacramento, on a warrant on Thursday, a bit of over every week after his spouse allegedly discovered the hidden digital camera and handed it, and a linked arduous drive, over to police. Authorities allegedly found the pictures of kid pornography and a number of movies from the digital camera after performing a forensic evaluation on the gadgets, in response to the Redding Police Division.

“The movies confirmed kids and adults utilizing the lavatory who didn’t seem to know they have been being recorded,” police mentioned.

After Rovito’s spouse first found the digital camera March 8, he allegedly “admitted information of the digital camera however vowed to take away and discard it,” police mentioned.

Rovito’s spouse then handed the electronics over to police, “fearing Mr. Rovito had nefariously recorded their younger kids utilizing the lavatory,” in response to the division. After performing the evaluation on the gadgets that turned up the lots of of images and a number of movies, detectives obtained an arrest warrant for Rovito, and took him into custody Thursday throughout a visitors cease close to Buenaventura Boulevard and Placer Road in Redding.

He was booked into the Shasta County Jail on expenses associated to the possession of kid pornography and the surreptitious recording of an identifiable one that was undressed, in response to Redding Police.

As of Sunday morning, his identify was now not listed the jail’s on-line inmate listing.

Rovito didn’t instantly reply to a textual content to a cellphone quantity listed beneath his identify on Sunday. It was not instantly clear if he has a lawyer who can converse on his behalf.

Rovito’s spouse couldn’t instantly be reached.

The Redding Police Division and the Shasta County Sheriff’s Workplace didn’t instantly reply to questions.