Swansea man charged after allegedly recording and photographing teens

FALL RIVER — A Swansea man arrested earlier this month for allegedly recording and photographing two teenage girls living in his home used an elaborate set-up with two-way mirrors and hidden video and still cameras in his Stevens Road home, according to court documents.

Gerald Caron, 65, is charged with one count each of photographing sexual or intimate parts without consent, photographing sexual or intimate parts of a child without consent, possession of child pornography and posing and/or exhibiting a child in the nude with lascivious intent.

The alleged victims are 15 and 18-years-old.

Swansea police initially received a complaint from one of the teenage girls in June when she discovered a two-way mirror in Caron’s bedroom that was located in one of the bathrooms in his home.

After a nearly month-long investigation, Swansea police discovered a homemade camera mount in his bedroom closet that was trained on the next door bathroom and through a two-way mirror, according to court documents. There was also a cutout in the closet wall that was connected to a second two-way mirror located in the same bathroom, the court document stated.

Police also discovered in that bathroom what court records indicate as a “decorative wooden tissue box” that also contained a two-way mirror with a camera mount inside.

Caron is also alleged to have set up a full-length mirror in one of the victim’s bedroom that was also a two-way mirror that he had access to from another room through a false wall. Police reportedly also found more two-way mirrors and mounts for recording devices in another bathroom that also had the two-way decorative tissue box.

After receiving search warrants in June and July before charges were filed against Caron, police retrieved computers, hard drives, SD cards, still and video cameras from Caron’s home.

With the help of forensic detectives from the Taunton Police Department, police discovered 16 video files and numerous still photographs. According to court records, at least two of the videos were recordings of the victims taken from inside his bedroom closet, according to the court document.

Caron was ordered held on $7,500 cash bail.

He is due back in court on Sept. 10.

Email Jo C. Goode at jgoode@heraldnews.com