Chaperone secretly films teens undressing at soccer tournament, MA officials say

A 56-year-old man is going to prison after he was accused of secretly recording teens undressing at a soccer tournament, Massachusetts officials said.

In August, deputies in Huntington Beach, California, alerted Winchester officers about videos they found on James Fantini’s phone, according to a July 11 news release by the Middlesex County District Attorney’s Office.

The video taken at a Winchester home showed three victims, officials said.

In June, Fantini was in California chaperoning a soccer tournament when he hid a camera under a baseball hat in a hotel bathroom to record two 15-year-old girls undress, prosecutors said.

The teens told police and they searched Fantini’s phone, finding more videos of the girls, who knew him as a dad in the community, officials said.

On July 7, Fantini pleaded guilty to photographing an unsuspecting person and of unlawful writetap, prosecutors said.

He was sentenced to 2 1/2 years in prison, followed by three years of probation, officials said.

While he’s on probation, he must wear a GPS monitor, stay out of Winchester and have no contact with anyone under 18-years-old, officials said.

Winchester is about a 10-mile drive northwest from Boston.