Israel Faber, Secretly Recording Children in Bathroom, Pennsylvania 2020

A Chester County, Pennsylvania man was sentenced to 28 years in prison and a lifetime of supervised release for secretly recording multiple children in the bathroom.

Israel Faber, 34, of Nottingham, PA, was sentenced by United States District Court Judge Mark A. Kearney for multiple child exploitation charges including producing, possessing and distributing child pornography.

In April 2021, Faber pleaded guilty to three counts of manufacturing child pornography, one count of distribution of child pornography and one count of possession of child pornography.

The charges stem from an investigation into an online forum known for being a place where users trade child pornography. For almost a year, the defendant hid his cell phone in a bathroom and secretly recorded child victims while they used the bathroom facilities.

Law enforcement agents caught onto the defendant’s crimes in April 2020 during an undercover investigation into an online chat group in which users shared ‘homemade’ child pornography. Faber distributed his own ‘homemade’ child pornography showing a young child using the bathroom.

The defendant hid these recordings on his phone and in secret online accounts that federal agents were able to identify using numerous search warrants. These accounts contained thousands of additional child pornography videos and images depicting children as young as infants being sexually abused and raped. Hundreds of child victims have been identified.

“This is an incredibly disturbing case – sexually exploiting children by secretly recording them in the bathroom is horrific,” said Acting U.S. Attorney Williams.

The case was investigated by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, York Area Regional Police, Lancaster City Bureau of Police and the Pennsylvania State Police, and is being prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney J. Jeanette Kang.

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