'A leading figure in San Francisco’s cartoon community admitted to secretly recording guests, including children, inside a bathroom at his home, according to court records.

Andrew Farago, who was a curator at San Francisco’s Cartoon Art Museum, was arrested earlier this month at his South Berkeley home on 20 counts of invasion of privacy for using a camera to record the unsuspecting victims at a birthday bash last month.

The 50-year-old had hosted the party at his house on May 23 where both adults and children used his bathroom.

At one point, a woman found a cellphone in the bathroom recording video. Farago had allegedly set the phone up and concealed it with a towel, and then aimed the phone “to record people’s genitalia as they used the restroom,” police said.'

What a terrible way to destroy what you've built. 

To Andrew’s credit, it’s reported (article below) he has taken ownership of his “lapse in judgment.” (Those are Andrew’s words from the article below. I’d use terms that are significantly much more harsh, as the victims included both adults and children, but I’m still processing this. My vocabulary fails me at the moment in finding a word that captures my combined disgust and disappointment.) The consequences are only beginning, not least of which losing the curatorship of CAM.

This will be a difficult time not only for Andrew, but his wife Shannon and their little guy. Whatever your inclination — prayers, thoughts, positive vibes — that’s a family in need of a lot of those now.

[Updated to clarify “lapse in judgment” were Andrew’s words from the article, and not mine. In no way do I want to minimize the seriousness of this situation which involves children.]

Deliberately setting up a camera to film party guests in the bathroom is not a "lapse in judgement."  It's sick.