A Massachusetts chiropractor was busted last week for allegedly spying on his naked patients through a camera he planted inside his practice’s bathroom, according to prosecutors.
Scott Kline, 44, was charged Friday with photographing an unsuspecting nude person after one of his patients noticed an odd-looking plastic coat hook in the restroom of Kline’s Peabody Chiropractic business, Back on Track.
The “out of place” hook was hanging on the wall directly next to the toilet tank and had a small blue light emitting from its side, according to the Middlesex District Attorney.
The patient took pictures of the device after realizing it appeared to contain a spy camera complete with a lens on the front, a USB port, on/off switch and an SD memory card.
The patient’s father and another man immediately confronted Kline, who allegedly begged the men to keep the discovery a secret, according to a police report obtained by NBC Boston.
“Please, please don’t do anything. I have a family,” Kline reportedly pleaded.
“How can we fix this situation? What can we do to make it right?” one of the men recalled to investigators.
The pair ultimately called police, who searched the office bathroom to find the disguised camera had allegedly been removed.
A velcro strip was still on the wall where the victim had reported the camera had been, and a police dog sniffed out evidence that an SD card had once been attached to the strip.
Kline allegedly told police he got rid of the camera “by stomping on it and flushing it down the toilet,” but cops later found it inside locked in a drawer in the office, allegedly stashed alongside hard drives containing “an extensive pornography collection as well as some work related material,” according to the report.
“There were hundreds of homemade images and videos of many women in different stages of undress and involved in sexual activity. Kline can be seen in some of these photos as well.”
Some of the hundreds of homemade images and videos appeared to have been taken inside the medical practice, including on exam tables, officers alleged, but were not used as evidence because the encounters all appeared to be consensual.
None appeared to be of his patients using the practice’s bathroom.
Police also reportedly found a list of 117 women that included their names, ages and number of sexual encounters.
Kline later admitted to investigators that he put the camera in his practice’s bathroom, but claimed he never used it to record anything, records show.
Several clients told NBC that the chiropractor has reached out to them calling the charges “false accusations” and “bad rumors.”
Kline, who was released on $10,000 bail, has since returned to work.
“I cannot wait for this to be cleared up and the dust to settle,” the doctor allegedly wrote in one text to a patient.
The chiropractor did not immediately respond to The Post’s request for comment.