A 34-year-old man who Pennsylvania State Police say was caught videoing students in a Chester County high school locker room is facing a long list of charges after investigators say he did the same thing in a school district near Pittsburgh.
Samuel Fischer was student-teaching at Owen J. Roberts High School in January 2023 when Pennsylvania State Police say a student saw him videoing boys in a locker room shower.
The affidavit of probable cause says Fischer was sitting in an office chair against a wall with his back to the locker room showers and his phone sticking out of his back pocket. Charging documents say when he spun in the chair, the student saw the screen of the phone, which showed it was recording. The student confronted Fischer.
According to charging documents, when State Police searched Fischer’s devices, they found similar images from locker rooms in the Pine Richland School District near Pittsburgh between December 2015 and February 2017. The school district says he worked there as an athletic trainer through an outside contractor.
Owen J. Roberts School District officials say Fischer was never employed by the district and was on campus for about a week. Once they learned of the allegations, he was removed from the district. They say all students involved in the investigation have been contacted.
Fischer faces 35 charges — 23 of them, felonies, including the creation and dissemination of child sexual abuse material, previously called child pornography, along with unlawful contact with minors.