Published: June 25, 2009 08:29 am      

Philly-area man admits high-tech peeping on women tenants

NORRISTOWN — A suburban Philadelphia landlord has admitted setting up a recording system and secretly spying on 34 women who rented apartments from him.

Thomas Daley of Phoenixville pleaded guilty in Montgomery County on Wednesday to 30 counts, including invasion of privacy. He had set up cameras behind mirrors and in ceiling fans, recording the women and even watching some of them live on his home computer.

Prosecutors say it began in 1989 and continued until September 2008 at five apartment buildings Daley owned in Norristown.

Defense attorney Tim Woodward says Daley never showed the videos to anyone else and “is extremely remorseful.”

The 46-year-old landlord will be sentenced later. He faces from 10 to 151 years in prison.