Ex-Deacon Faces Sex Video Charges: Man Allegedly Videotaped Girls

LAS CRUCES, Mar 29, 2008 (Albuquerque Journal - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- -- A man police identified as a former Baptist deacon was arrested Friday on charges that he secretly videotaped women and girls for sexually oriented videos.

Las Cruces police charged Terry Dean Gibson, 55, with nine counts of sexual exploitation of children.

Gibson was held Friday at the Dona Ana County Detention Center on a $150,000 cashonly bond.

The charges include one count for possessing obscene material involving a child, four counts for recording material and four counts for processing the material involving children.

Gibson is accused of secretly videotaping women and girls at his home's backyard swimming pool as well as at local stores and at the Mesilla Valley Mall with a hidden camera.

Gibson told detectives that he hid a camera in a briefcase or bag to surreptitiously film up the skirts of women and girls at local stores, according to a police affidavit submitted for an arrest warrant.

According to the affidavit, Gibson also told police he hosted several pool parties at his home in the summer of 2005 for his church's youth group and Bible study groups. During some of the parties, Gibson allegedly filmed women and girls in bathing suits from behind the window blinds of his office.

The two-year-old investigation into the case began in March 2006 when a Gibson family member searching for music files on the Gibson's computer found video files of a young woman, in a bathing suit, swimming and playing in the suspect's backyard pool. Gibson's relative made a copy of the hard drive and turned it over to the FBI.

Four video files obtained in a search of Gibson's computer contained images of a girl under 16 years old and three girls under 13 in and around the former deacon's swimming pool.

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