Charges: Twin Cities Man Placed Hidden Cameras in Bathrooms to Film Young Girl

Bloomington Man Accused of Using Hidden Cameras to Capture Photos & Videos of Young Girl in Bathrooms at Goodhue County Home & Rochester Hotel Room

Rochester, MN (KROC-AM News)- A Twin Cities man is facing charges in Olmsted and Goodhue Counties for a case involving a hidden camera. 

See Also: Rochester Child Porn Investigation Leads to 11-Year Prison Sentence 

35-year-old Andrew Jens Knudsen of Bloomington is charged in Goodhue County with felony interference of privacy and second-degree burglary. In Olmsted County he is facing counts of felony interference of privacy.

Court documents indicate he is relative to the family victimized in the case. One of the family members is a girl under the age of 10. 

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Bloomington Man Charged with Burglary, Privacy Interference After Family Find Hidden Camera in Bathroom of Goodhue County Home

Goodhue County Sheriff’s deputies responded to the family’s rural Goodhue County home on March 21 on the report that Knudsen had placed a hidden camera in the bathroom at their home. 

The Goodhue County complaint says the family and children got home early from school and found Knutson in their home uninvited. Knudsen told the mother and children that he was there looking for eggs for a coworker. 

He later told investigators the door to the victim’s home was unlocked. After Knudsen left the family found a black wall charger with a hidden camera in it plugged into an outlet of a bathroom used by the children, the charges say. 

The camera was facing the bathtub. There was also a wifi hotspot in the attic above the bathroom, the complaint says. 

Following Knudsen’s arrest, authorities executed a search warrant on Knudsen’s phone after being informed of the hidden camera. Investigators were also told that Knudsen shared a hotel room with the victim’s family when they visited Rochester in early March. 

The search of the phone revealed photos and videos of the young girl using a bathroom. Investigators also found a photo of a nude male next to nude female with the child’s face imposed over the face of the nude female, according to the Olmsted County complaint. 

There were also multiple edited photos depicting girls believed to be 8-9 years old, according to the Olmsted County Court document. 

During a second search of Knudsen’s phone, investigators found the "DiscreetCameraApp,” which is used for capturing photos and videos from a hidden camera, had been started at a Rochester hotel on the morning of March 8, the Olmsted County complaint says. 

The app had multiple videos taken at the hotel’s pool area, hotel room and hotel room bathroom, including a video that depicted the two female family members using the bathroom, the charges say. 

Knudsen is seen on video grabbing his phone, which the complaint says was angled towards the bathtub and toilet. 

Knudsen was charged in the Goodhue County case this past March. He is out on $10,000 bail and the case remains ongoing. 

He has been charged by summons in the Olmsted County case and is scheduled to make his first court appearance next Spring.