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A 44-year-old Edmonds man was charged last week with one count of first-degree attempted voyeurism for allegedly installing a cell phone camera in a bathroom used by pre-teen and adolescent students at Everett’s Leading Edge Gymnastics Academy where he is employed as a youth gymnastics coach. He was also charged with one count of second-degree possession of child pornography, which detectives discovered after examining his cell phone.
In addition to coaching, the defendant is also in charge of managing and maintaining the facility’s surveillance system.
Charging documents filed July 19 in Snohomish County Superior Court allege that Patrick Kunz placed a cell phone camera inside the bathroom’s paper towel dispenser box on or about Dec. 6, 2020. It was first observed on Dec. 9 by a pre-teen female gymnastics student, who immediately reported it to another male coach at the facility. This coach, along with a second female coac
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Everett gymnastics coach charged with voyeurism, child porn
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EVERETT, Wash. - An Edmonds man has been charged with putting cellphone cameras in a youth gymnastics bathroom and possessing child pornography.
Patrick Kunz was a coach at the Leading Edge Gymnastics Academy in Everett, where he controlled the surveillance system, The Daily Herald reported.
On Dec. 9, charging papers filed in Snohomish County Superior Court say a child found a paper towel dispenser box with a hole facing the toilet. Inside the hole, documents say people saw the lens of a cellphone camera facing out.
A coach told police at least six girls used the bathroom while the box was there.
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EVERETT, Wash. (AP) - A gymnastics coach was arrested Friday for investigation of voyeurism and possession of child pornography, according to the Everett Police Department.
The investigation began in December, when a 10-year-old student at Leading Edge Gymnastics Academy told a coach about a suspicious box in the bathroom, The Daily Herald reported.
Staff reportedly found a cellphone in the box pointing at the toilets.
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The head coach called 911 and reportedly showed the male suspect the box, told him not to touch it and briefly left. When officers arrived the phone was missing, police said.