Former Rutgers Professor Arrested For Filming Women In University Bathroom

A former professor from the medical school at Rutgers University, New Jersey, was accused of using a hidden camera in a bathroom to film several women in various states of undress without their consent. He was also accused of identity theft of his colleagues as well as other charges by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office Wednesday.

According to the 160-count indictment, James Goydos, former director of Melanoma and Soft Tissue Oncology at Rutgers Cancer Institute, allegedly recorded more than two dozen women “under circumstances in which a reasonable person would not expect to be observed.” He also had images of the women from inside a bathroom.

He was accused of filming the women in bathrooms in 2017. But he wasn't arrested until March, 2018, when police searched his house and found an unlicensed assault rifle in his basement. They did not say what caused them to search his house in East Brunswick.

Andrea Boulton, spokeswoman for the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s office, said, “None of the victims were photographed or filed in Goydos’ capacity as a physician but in a bathroom at his workplace.” Among the people he recorded and photographed, were at least 26 women and three other people whose genders were not revealed. All the people recorded were in various stages of undress and it was done without their knowledge or consent.

He has a third degree charge against him for allegedly photographing or videotaping victims without their consent or knowledge while their “intimate parts” were exposed. There is a fourth degree charge as well for similar incidents but in those cases, the victims were wearing underwear.

Goydos faces several counts of third degree burglary for allegedly unlawfully entering the offices of several coworkers. He also faces numerous charges of third-degree and second-degree charges of computer theft for allegedly obtaining copies or using copies of personal information of several victims.

Of the 160 charges against him, there were more than 100 counts of invasion of privacy, official misconduct, burglary, computer theft, impersonation, wire-trapping, falsely implicating another, coercion, hindering, possession of an assault rifle and possession of a prohibited device. The indictment also stated that Goydos entered the offices of four people at the Cancer Institute in New Jersey in 2016 and stole information from their computers in what was called a scheme to defraud, or to obtain services, property, and personal indentifying information on money. He also impersonated the employees to benefit himself or injure others.

Following his arrest, Goydos, 58, who was also a professor at Rutgers-Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, was banned from university property in 2018, after which he resigned. The university said none of the alleged crimes were related to patient care.

He is again due in court later this month. He was indicted after a joint investigation by the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office and the Rutgers University Police Department.

“Dr. Goydos is not employed at the University. Dr. Goydos was initially banned from the University and subsequently resigned,” the University said in a statement to the local news website mycentraljersey.com.