Duchess of York faces charges in Turkey over TV special
(CBS/AP) ANKARA, Turkey - Britain's Duchess of York is in hot water again.
A Turkish court has pressed charges against the duchess, Sarah Ferguson, for secretly filming orphanages in Turkey.
The court on Thursday accused the 52-year-old Ferguson in absentia of going "against the law in acquiring footage and violating privacy" of five children. She faces a maximum term of 22 1/2 years in prison if convicted. No trial date has been set.
Ferguson, the former wife of Britain's Prince Andrew and the mother of Princesses Beatrice and Eugenie, made an undercover trip to Turkey in 2008 to examine orphanages for a British television program.
Secretly filmed images that were broadcast appeared to show children tied to their beds or left in cribs at an orphanage near the capital of Ankara.
It is not clear why it took more than three years to file charges against Ferguson, who has been plagued with debt problems and in May 2010 was filmed by a British newspaper offering access to Prince Andrew for cash.
In an interview with Oprah Winfrey, the duchess later said she had been drinking when the tape was made.