An Arapahoe County therapeutic massage therapist recorded grownup and baby shoppers undressing and through classes with out their data, based on courtroom paperwork.
Christopher Ost, a 39-year-old therapeutic massage therapist primarily based in Centennial, turned himself in final week and was charged with two counts of sexual assault on a baby and three counts of invasion of privateness for sexual gratification.
Ost largely labored out of his house within the 5300 block of S. Genoa Approach in Centennial, however he additionally visited shoppers’ properties and labored with youngsters with disabilities all through the Denver space, based on the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Workplace.
Sheriff’s deputies responded to the Centennial house at 8:55 a.m. on Oct. 21, after Ost’s spouse informed 911 dispatchers that she had discovered a video of a lady undressing on her husband’s telephone. She stated Ost was not conscious she had discovered the recording.
Ost’s spouse informed investigators that she was going via photos on the telephone on Oct. 19 when she seen a video taken in Ost’s therapeutic massage room earlier that month, based on the arrest affidavit.
The 17-minute video confirmed a lady coming into the room and undressing, the doc said. After the lady completed undressing, Ost entered the room, collected the telephone and stopped the recording.
When detectives reached out to the lady within the video, she stated she had been getting one or two massages a month from Ost for greater than a yr, and that she had no concept she was being recorded, police stated within the affidavit.
On Oct. 24, deputies responded to Ost’s Centennial house for a safety order violation, police stated. His spouse had him served with divorce papers after discovering the video, and a safety order was issued out of Arapahoe County on Oct. 23. The safety order barred Ost from being on the Genoa deal with.
Ost was arrested for violating the safety order and his telephone was positioned into proof.
When deputies searched the telephone, they discovered at the very least 5 extra recordings from contained in the therapeutic massage room, one among which is greater than half-hour lengthy and allegedly entails a baby. Investigators additionally uncovered an unspecified variety of pornographic pictures and movies on the telephone.
Ost was launched on a $75,000 bail final week and is subsequent scheduled to seem in courtroom for a preliminary listening to on Jan. 9.
Anybody with details about the case or any extra victims is requested to contact the sheriff’s workplace tip line at 720-874-8477.
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