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MADERA COUNTY, Calif. (KFSN) -- It's being called a abrogation location of horrors. A rental spot successful Oakhurst is wherever the Madera County Sheriff says 44-year-old Christian Parmalee Edwards was caught secretly filming his guests without their knowledge.
Investigators accidental helium not lone filmed from extracurricular done the blinds but besides from the wrong of the house, arsenic helium was surviving connected the 3rd story.
"Whether helium was sneaking down, we're not definite of the circumstances. He's besides secretly videotaping children clothed, but similar zooming into inappropriate places connected children," says Sheriff Tyson Pogue, Madera County.
After respective tips from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children flagged the home, Madera Sheriff's deputies served a hunt warrant past week and uncovered Edwards had filmed anyplace betwixt 10-15 women and astatine slightest 1 kid astir six years aged without their apparel on.
Investigators seized 30 antithetic devices with implicit 4,000 files of kid enactment maltreatment material.
But we are present learning of adjacent much sinister discoveries.
"We recovered immoderate brand-new children's underwear. So, you tin spot the escalation here, that astatine immoderate constituent helium was astir apt going to go a hands-on offender," says Sheriff Pogue.
Sheriff Tyson Pogue tells Action News that deputies judge Edwards was watching a video of a nude pistillate impermanent moments earlier helium was taken into custody.
"His past rental checked retired connected March 16th. The video helium was really watching connected his telephone erstwhile detectives opened that telephone was the signaling from March 16th," says Sheriff Pogue.
The abrogation location is located not acold from Yosemite.
Deputies accidental Edwards archetypal listed it online arsenic a short-term commercialized rental successful July of 2025, and that the videos they recovered day backmost to that time.
"It's a hub for worldwide tourism, truthful this was a typically commercialized rented short-term rental. He was besides doing backstage transactions wherever helium would advertise connected Facebook oregon Craigslist," says Sheriff Pogue.
Action News has present obtained the transgression ailment filed against Edwards. At this constituent helium is facing 1 felony number for his possession of kid enactment maltreatment material.
During his archetypal hearing, a justice lowered his bail from $225,000 dollars to $75,000. Sheriff Pogue tells Action News that his imaginable consequences whitethorn beryllium amazingly minimal.
"If helium gets convicted of that, depending connected his transgression past and different factors, helium whitethorn get 2 oregon 3 years. I would accidental helium lone has to bash 50% successful our authorities jails. I deliberation it's shocking that it's not much serious," says Sheriff Pogue.
The probe is inactive successful the opening stages, this arsenic deputies proceed to sift done each of the grounds they recovered.
The sheriff's bureau is present asking anyone who believes they whitethorn person stayed astatine the spot to travel guardant and interaction them.
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