Ryan Cho, 28, was arrested on July 10 after staff at the Austin Hospital in Australia allegedly found a mobile phone recording a staff member in the toilet
A doctor has been accused of secretly recording staff using toilets at multiple hospitals after police discovered thousands of intimate photos and videos.
Ryan Cho, 28, was arrested on July 10 after staff at the Austin Hospital in Australia allegedly found a mobile phone recording a staff member in the toilet.
However, he was re-arrested on Friday evening, after police discovered 4,500 intimate videos and photos on a laptop hard drive that was seized.
Senior Constable Neral Baykur told the court Mr Cho was identified through an internal hospital investigation after a mesh bag containing a mobile phone, powerbank and clothes was located in a staff toilet.
Police discovered over three hours of footage located on the phone and captured the doctor setting up the device, before five people used the toilet over the next 40 minutes.
The videos allegedly date between 2021 and 2025 and show staff using toilet or shower facilities.
Authorities believe the doctor was filming across Austin Hospital, the Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
Staff are now fearful of using internal facilities following the investigation, according to police.
“The accused has named at least 460 victims in total,” Ms Baykur said. “However we have not yet confirmed ‘yes those are the victims’.”
Officers also revealed another 5,222 files were located in a folder titled “other” in a residential setting.
Mr Cho had enrolled in a program for alleged sex offenders set to begin in August. Magistrate James Henderson refused the doctor bail.
“The allegations at this stage are of course serious allegations they relate to a huge amount of intimate videos,” he said.
“There is said to be 10,000 files in existence, there has been careful classification of those files said to contain intimate depictions of … people toileting and showering in staff facilities without their knowledge.”
Victoria Police said investigators had identified several other hospitals between 2020 and 2025 as places of interest.
“Police have begun the process of contacting the additional hospitals and those potentially impacted during the time of the man’s employment. This process is due to take some time,” a spokeswoman said. The suspect is due to return to court in November.
Meanwhile, in a separate case, a nurse accused of amputating the foot of a patient without his consent allegedly planned to display it in her family’s taxidermy shop.
Mary K. Brown, 40, will not face any jail time after pleading no contest to abusing the 62-year-old man, who was in her care at a nursing home in May 2022. In US law, a no contest plea means the defendant neither disputes nor admits to the criminal charges.
The patient, who had initially been taken to the centre because of “severe frostbite” on both of his feet, died days after his foot was removed. However, according to a criminal complaint, no definitive link was made between his death and the amputation.