A man who invited children into his home in order to secretly record them while they were changing clothes or using the bathroom was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison Monday.
Jonathan Mark Oldale, 55, will spend 20 years behind bars followed by a lifetime of supervised release on charges of production and possession of child pornography, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Maryland.
Oldale will also be required to register as a sex offender where he resides, where he is an employee and where he is a student.
He also was ordered to pay a $400,000 money judgement in lieu of forfeiting his interest in his house, which he had used to commit his crimes.
According to his plea agreement, on May 5, 2017, the Montgomery County Police Department received a complaint from an employee at a children’s gymnastics facility in Silver Spring that Oldale had placed a backpack containing a camera disguised to look like a car key fob in the bathroom. The employee told officers about a prior incident, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office, where Oldale had done the same thing.
Police searched his home, and found three computers, two of which had been on the “dark web” and accessed child pornography or exchanged child pornography. A second search of his home found three “spy cameras” and footage of children in his bathroom changing, showering and using the toilet.
“Children were invited to 'splash parties' at Oldale’s residence in June and July 2017, including by e-mailed invitations sent to their parents. Children would become covered with grass while playing on an inflatable structure in the back yard,” the U.S. Attorney’s Office District of Maryland officials wrote in a release. “Oldale encouraged the children to change clothes or take showers before they went home. Of the approximately 79 children who appear in the videos taken in the bathroom, approximately 52 are depicted nude at some point in the videos.”
The case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to help keep children safe from people who exploit children and rescue victims.
