A leading figure in San Francisco’s cartoon community admitted to secretly recording guests 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.
She confronted Farago, who police said admitted to the sick surveillance while claiming that he deleted the videos.
He also apologized via email to his party guests, court records showed.
“I hid my phone in our bathroom for the purpose of spying on our guests, my closest friends in the world. I had never done anything like that before and don’t know what possessed me to do it,” he wrote in the note.
Farago added that he “is prepared to face whatever consequences will come from this tremendous lapse in judgement.”
During his arrest, police seized a dozen electronic devices from his home. An investigation is still ongoing.
Farago has 25 years of experience in museum operations and has written in comic books for more than two decades.
The Post contacted him for comment.