"Shirley official allegedly took lurid photos, bugged offices" by Peter Schworm and Jack Nicas, Globe Staff | Globe Correspondent | June 16, 2010
SHIRLEY — In stunning allegations that appalled residents and town leaders, authorities accused Town Administrator Kyle J. Keady yesterday of planting a video camera in the ceiling of the women’s restroom in Town Hall, secretly recording conversations in his office, and bugging his assistant and the town accountant.
Keady, a 46-year-old who has been town administrator for seven years, compiled “hundreds, perhaps thousands, of photo images’’ taken with hidden cameras, authorities said. Police said they seized hard drives from Keady’s home and office Monday that contained numerous “close-up photos of various body parts’’ of visitors to his office.
The lurid allegations came to light as Keady was arraigned in Ayer District Court on charges of illegal recording, illegal possession of a recording device, and video recording a person in a state of nudity....
In court records made public yesterday, authorities described the bizarre case as an apparent mix of paranoia and perversion....
They said Keady admitted to placing a recorder in a plant on his female assistant’s desk earlier this month to “educate’’ himself because he did not trust many people. And, authorities said, he confessed to hiding a camera in the women’s bathroom....
Then they are not really allegations, are they?
Why protect a creep?
Prosecutors also accused Keady of breaking into his assistant’s home to photograph her undergarments and using a hidden baby monitor to record the town accountant....
Prosecutors said Keady recorded conversations with selectmen and other town employees with pens equipped with a small camera and a recorder....
Keady was released on $2,500 bail and ordered to stay away from Town Hall and the alleged victims.
He's not locked up?
Dudley Goar, a Concord lawyer who represented Keady at his arraignment, declined to comment on the charges, but said Keady has close ties to the community and readily cooperated with police.
“He’s been a public servant for a long time,’’ he said. Goar said Keady looked “very upset’’ about the charges....
Looks to me like he has been SERVING HIMSELF, the sick f***.
Kyle J. Keady could not be reached for comment. No one answered the door at his home, and his listed phone number had been disconnected....
News of the charges quickly rippled through this small town northwest of Boston....
The town accountant, Bobbi Jo Colburn, declined comment. A knock at the door of Keady’s assistant went unanswered....
A subsequent search of his home, police said, revealed large quantities of pornography, including covert photographs and logs of illicit observations he made of women and co-workers.
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