Pennsylvania

Bucks County Nurse Pleads Guilty to Secretly Filming Female Patients

Authorities say a Pennsylvania nurse has pleaded guilty to secretly filming unclothed female patients as they underwent medical procedures.

Bucks County prosecutors say 45-year-old James Close on Friday admitted to videotaping the women, including a 17-year-old girl, during dermatology treatments at Penn Medicine in Yardley.

A lawyer representing some of the victims says police searched Close's phone and found 18 separate videos of seven different women.

The attorney says Close was caught when the 17-year-old girl noticed his phone filming her during a procedure. He says the oldest victim was in her 60's.

A voicemail message left at a phone number listed for Close's attorney was not immediately returned. A spokeswoman for Penn Medicine did not immediately return an emailed request for comment.

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