Ex-Villanova student charged in posting online videos of women undressing

A former Villanova University student has been charged with taking clandestine videos of three females, one 17, and posting them to pornographic websites.

Tyler Jones, 20, hid his iPhone in the bathroom of a residence in Switzerland and filmed three guests undressing, Radnor Township police said Friday.

Police said Jones uploaded the videos to two pornography websites from his dorm room. None of the women was affiliated with Villanova.

On Dec. 20, one of the women - a 30-year-old living in Brooklyn, N.Y. - contacted Radnor police after she learned that a video of her undressing had been posted, police said.

Jones was arrested Feb. 12, and police learned that he had filmed two more women in the same bathroom.

The women had been visiting Jones' older brother when the videos were taken - two in 2012 and one in 2011, police said.

The videos have been taken down from both websites, and Jones is no longer enrolled at Villanova, university officials said.

Since a juvenile was involved, Jones was charged with dissemination of child pornography and possession of child pornography, both felonies. He is also charged with three counts of invasion of privacy, three counts of obscene materials on the Internet, and one count of criminal use of a communication device, police said.

Jones waived a preliminary hearing on Tuesday and was bound over for trial. He posted bail on Feb. 12, police said, although he was forced to surrender his passport.