Ex-West Penn employee pleads guilty to secretly recording patients, coworkers

A Canonsburg man pleaded guilty Wednesday to hiding video cameras inside West Penn Hospital and filming dozens of employees and female patients.

Guy Caley, 53, will be sentenced by Allegheny County Common Pleas Judge Bruce Beemer on Aug. 16. He pleaded guilty to 89 criminal counts.

Caley was charged last summer with invasion of privacy and intercepting communications and was accused of recording people in various stages of dress — sometimes while using the toilet and others while in an imaging room.

Cameras were hidden in a unisex employee bathroom and in another third-floor restroom.

They were discovered after a coworker found a small camera taped to a chair in the unisex bathroom, police said.

Caley admitted to investigators to downloading the video footage, captured in and around the hospital’s MRI room, to his personal computer.

Caley worked at the hospital as a medical technician and told detectives he was curious about what the cameras would pick up in the bathroom.

Investigators discovered dozens of files on Caley’s laptop.

In the video, police said, Caley could be seen installing the camera, then leaving. Moments later, he would return with a female patient. Audio on the recordings sometimes captured them discussing medical testing or picked up conversations the women had with the people accompanying them.

Investigators said Caley would often tell the patients to change into a hospital gown before leaving the room again.

Multiple lawsuits have been filed as a result of Caley’s actions against the hospital.