ST. IGNACE, MI – A high-school athletic trainer admitted he used a
pen camera to surreptitiously record nude videos of football players and
wrestlers in the locker room.
Thomas Hamel, 66, who retired as a teacher at St. Ignace High School
in 2009, volunteered as a trainer the next four years and secretly
videotaped young athletes – both at the middle school and high school.
The government said he recorded athletes from 2007 to 2012.
Hamel pleaded guilty Monday, Feb. 1, to sexual exploitation of a
minor. He faces at least 15 years, and up to 30, in prison when
sentenced May 29 in U.S. District Court in Marquette.