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Park County prosecutors plan to seek two to four years of prison time for a Lovell man who secretly videotaped his female coworkers in a women’s bathroom.
It will ultimately be up to a judge …
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Park County prosecutors plan to seek two to four years of prison time for a Lovell man who secretly videotaped his female coworkers in a women’s bathroom.
It will ultimately be up to a judge to determine the appropriate sentence for Scott Abraham.
Authorities say that Abraham hid a miniature video camera in a bathroom at his Powell workplace on at least two different occasions in 2018 and 2019, capturing images of four coworkers using the private bathroom. Court records say he was caught after one of the women spotted the camera in mid-June 2019; he allegedly admitted to Powell police that he’d set up the device in hopes of “getting away with something forbidden,” referring to himself as a fool who’d made a “stupid mistake.”
Abraham, who has no prior criminal offenses, reportedly told police the June 2019 incident was the first time he’d set up the camera in the bathroom. However, when Investigator Chris Wallace searched the device, he found evidence that it had been used to record the women in August 2018 as well.
Abraham was arrested last November and charged with six felonies. He spent a couple days in jail before being freed on a $10,000 bond.
Last month, Abraham’s attorney and the Park County Attorney’s Office submitted a filing announcing they had reached a plea deal. The March document says Abraham has agreed to plead guilty to all four counts of voyeurism, while prosecutors will drop two charges of intercepting oral communications (those related to unrelated allegations that Abraham surreptitiously recorded a pair of conversations between coworkers). The parties agreed to jointly recommend the two- to four-year prison sentence.
Presiding District Court Judge Bill Simpson has scheduled Abraham for a change of plea and sentencing hearing on May 26.
(Editor's note: This version corrects the framework of the plea deal. Under the agreement, Abraham and prosecutors are jointly recommending a two- to four-year prison sentence; Abraham will not be able to argue for a lesser sentence as the article originally stated.)
