Man charged with taking pictures of students in Ellis Library

A man has been charged with invasion of privacy after he was accused of taking pictures of male students in the bathroom at Ellis Library.

ABC 17 previously reported that Jacob Vanderlinde was arrested in March after a man reported to police that someone had taken a picture of him while he was inside a stall in a bathroom at the library.

According to the probable cause statement, Vanderlinde admitted that he would take pictures underneath the bathroom stall and check the pictures at a later time. He estimated that he had taken pictures without the consent or knowledge of his victims approximately three times in the past six moths at the library.

Officers believed that before they spoke with Vanderlinde, he had attempted to delete the pictures.

Police described the pictures as ones that were taken both under and over bathroom stalls and at least two separate men with their pants around their ankles. The pictures also displayed other men in states of partial nudity and were taken in a manner in which the men would have no knowledge of the photos.

Vanderlinde was also charged with child pornography after officers found videos and multiple images depicting children as young as infants involved in sex acts.