St. Charles, Illinois man accused of taking upskirt videos of 33 women, 2 girls
A St. Charles, Illinois, man is facing dozens of new charges accusing him of taking upskirt videos of 33 women and two minor girls.
The Kane County State's Attorney's office and Geneva police announced Tuesday that Jascent Harvey, 30, has been charged with 51 felonies, including two counts of production, six counts of reproduction, and eight counts of possession of child sexual abuse material, two counts of unauthorized video recording of victims under 18, and 33 more counts of unauthorized video recording.
All of these counts are felonies. Production of child sexual abuse material is a Class X felony, carrying a sentence of up to 30 years in prison.
The state's attorney's office said between June 2023 and September 2025, Harvey used his mobile phone to take video surreptitiously up the skirts of 33 different women and two minor girls.
Harvey was arrested on Oct. 3 of last year, after he was accused of using his phone to record up a woman's skirt at a store in Geneva. Harvey's phones and laptops were searched by investigators, and more unauthorized upskirt videos turned up. At the time, police said a review of his phone uncovered more than 400 unauthorized upskirt videos he'd recorded since 2017 at stores, banks, office buildings, libraries, and government buildings across the western suburbs. But in October, he was charged only with one count of burglary and one count of unauthorized video recording of intimate parts.
On March 28 of this year, Harvey was charged with 51 new counts. He was brought to Kane County Court for a detention hearing on Monday and ordered held until trial.
A judge found that Harvey was a threat to the safety of the community, authorities said.