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A youth swim coach accused of secretly recording video of a 13-year-old girl as she changed clothes before practice appeared in court Monday.Tyler Lustig, 23, of Milwaukee, was charged with invading privacy by the use of a surveillance device with a victim younger than 18 and attempting to capture an intimate representation of a victim younger than 18.The recording took place last December in a utility closet inside Cudahy Middle School, police said. Lustig declined to answer questions from WISN 12 before the court.According to a criminal complaint, he told a detective it was “sick curiosity” that lead him to allegedly make the recording.Lustig worked as a swim coach for the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, based in Brown Deer. The victim said she was changing into her swimsuit and saw a “shiny object” propped up near a storage tote.She discovered it was a cellphone that was recording, the criminal complaint said.When she looked at the video, she said she saw the swim coach placing the phone in the concealed location.According to the criminal complaint, she said she deleted the video in a panic and put the phone back where she found it.The girl said she called her mother and then went back into the closet to get the phone but it was gone.They then called the p0lice.During an interview with police, Lustig admitted to putting the phone in the utility closet. He said it was his “sick curiosity” that made him do this, the criminal complaint said. Lustig said he had never done it before. “I kind of hate myself right now,” he told police. “I just don’t know what I was going for. It was a spur of the moment (decision).”Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center rented time at the Cudahy Middle School for its swim team. Lustig is no longer employed by the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, which issued the following statement: “The reported allegations against our former employee are contrary to everything we stand for at Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center. The safety of all our athletes is our highest priority and we take seriously our and our employees’ obligations to abide by the law, Safe Sport expectations and mandates, as well as protocols and expectations set by USA Swimming. We regularly train our employees on these expectations and have zero tolerance for any behavior that is contrary to these laws, expectations and norms. We are fully cooperating with the investigations into these allegations.” If Lustig was convicted on all charges, he could serve more than six years in prison.He was free on $1,000 cash bail.
A youth swim coach accused of secretly recording video of a 13-year-old girl as she changed clothes before practice appeared in court Monday.
Tyler Lustig, 23, of Milwaukee, was charged with invading privacy by the use of a surveillance device with a victim younger than 18 and attempting to capture an intimate representation of a victim younger than 18.
The recording took place last December in a utility closet inside Cudahy Middle School, police said.
Lustig declined to answer questions from WISN 12 before the court.
According to a criminal complaint, he told a detective it was “sick curiosity” that lead him to allegedly make the recording.
Lustig worked as a swim coach for the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, based in Brown Deer.
The victim said she was changing into her swimsuit and saw a “shiny object” propped up near a storage tote.
She discovered it was a cellphone that was recording, the criminal complaint said.
When she looked at the video, she said she saw the swim coach placing the phone in the concealed location.
According to the criminal complaint, she said she deleted the video in a panic and put the phone back where she found it.
The girl said she called her mother and then went back into the closet to get the phone but it was gone.
They then called the p0lice.
During an interview with police, Lustig admitted to putting the phone in the utility closet.
He said it was his “sick curiosity” that made him do this, the criminal complaint said.
Lustig said he had never done it before.
“I kind of hate myself right now,” he told police. “I just don’t know what I was going for. It was a spur of the moment (decision).”
Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center rented time at the Cudahy Middle School for its swim team.
Lustig is no longer employed by the Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center, which issued the following statement:
“The reported allegations against our former employee are contrary to everything we stand for at Walter Schroeder Aquatic Center. The safety of all our athletes is our highest priority and we take seriously our and our employees’ obligations to abide by the law, Safe Sport expectations and mandates, as well as protocols and expectations set by USA Swimming. We regularly train our employees on these expectations and have zero tolerance for any behavior that is contrary to these laws, expectations and norms. We are fully cooperating with the investigations into these allegations.”
If Lustig was convicted on all charges, he could serve more than six years in prison.
He was free on $1,000 cash bail.