A former Seattle private school ski coach accused and convicted of secretly recording female students undressing on a school trip to Silver Star Mountain Resort was turned over to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) special agents Wednesday to face U.S. child exploitation charges.
Jason Christopher Paur, 44, pleaded guilty in January in Canada to possession of child pornography and two counts of secretly observing/recording nudity. He was arrested in December 2013 and was sentenced to 16 months time served in custody.
Paur was arrested in December 2013 by the RCMP after female students discovered a hidden camera in their room.
The students notified chaperones who contacted police. The camera seized in Canada contained images of students as young as 14 being secretly filmed while changing clothes or after exiting the shower.
HSI’s investigation revealed Paur had allegedly recorded students not only in 2013, but during other trips in 2012 and 2011, according to records in the case.
The U.S. indictment alleges Paur used the pictures for his own sexual gratification and transported the pictures from Canada to the U.S. The indictment further alleges that Paur traveled with the teens to Canada with the intention to film them for his own sexual gratification.
He is charged in the U.S. with production of child pornography with intent to transport; possession of child pornography; transportation of minors with intent to engage in criminal sexual activity; and two counts of production and transportation of child pornography.
The charges contained in the indictment are only allegations.
The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Washington is prosecuting the case.
