NY- A custodian caught spying on women with a handy cam in a bathroom of a Brooklyn high school surrendered his trove of sick videos so he could "clear his conscience," according to court papers.
Peeping perp Michael Conte admitted he has been secretly taping women for the past 10 years.
After waiving his right against self-incrimination with a flip, "Why not?" Conte described his creepy obsession.
"I like to watch women dressing and undressing and I like to watch naked women," Conte, 46, stated in his handwritten confession filed yesterday after he was indicted for unlawful surveillance in Brooklyn Supreme Court.
"I feel sorry for what I have done and I know what I did was wrong," he wrote.
Conte's secret video was first discovered by a female friend in her Long Island home, where he had installed a wireless camera in a bathroom used by her teen daughters. After his arrest in that case, Conte led investigators to bathrooms at Brooklyn Technical and Westinghouse High School.
Conte would stand in a room adjacent to the faculty bathroom, sometimes for as long as an hour, taping through a tiny hole in the wall. He told Detective Philip Miano where to find 50 to 60 videotapes in the basement of his Staten Island home, and a DVD of images from Westinghouse that "shows images of women going to the bathroom.
Conte's lawyer asked Supreme Court Justice John Walsh yesterday for permission to review the tapes to determine whether some predate June 2003, when Gov. Pataki signed "Stephanie's Law," which metes out stiff penalties to video voyeurs.
