SC judge drops max on Indian Land man for secret camera videos of showering girls
A South Carolina judge dropped the maximum sentence of 16 years on a man who secretly took videos of minor girls showering at a home in Indian Land, according to prosecutors and court records.
S.C. Circuit Court Judge Brian Gibbons sentenced William Brandon Lee Campbell, 45, Tuesday in Lancaster County criminal court. Campbell pleaded guilty to two counts of voyeurism and one count of second-degree sexual exploitation of a minor from the recordings made in Indian Land in 2020, officials with the S.C. Attorney General’s Office said.
Gibbons’ sentence was the maximum allowed under South Carolina law.
The judge ordered Campbell to serve 10 years for sexual exploitation followed by six years for the two voyeurism counts, for a 16-year prison total. Campbell must register as a sex offender after prison.
Campbell admitted he put a camera in the bathroom to secretly record the victims, prosecutors said.
Deputies arrested Campbell in 2021 after a Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office investigation that started in late 2020. Electronics, videos and photos were seized from the house, police and prosecutors said.
Campbell had lived at one time in nearby Charlotte but lived in Indian Land, near Fort Mill, at the time of the crimes, said Robert Kittle, spokesman for the attorney general.
The relationship between Campbell and the victims was not released. The Herald does not identify minor victims of sex crimes.
This week’s case is not the only one in the area in recent years where South Carolina Internet Crimes Against Children prosecutors garnered voyeurism and sexual exploitation convictions for secret bathroom recordings.
In 2021, in an unrelated York County case also prosecuted by the attorney general, a judge sentenced a Lake Wylie man to 20 years in prison after he admitted to making secret videos of children in a home’s bathroom.
In 2020, a York County man was sentenced to 18 years in prison after pleading guilty to secret bathroom recordings.
