Melbourne, Australia — A trainee surgeon was launched from custody on bail Friday after he was accused of secretly video recording lots of of medical colleagues within the restrooms of Australian hospitals.
Ryan Cho, 28, will probably face round 500 fees regarding 4,500 intimate movies he secretly recorded with telephones primarily within the workers restrooms of three Melbourne hospitals since 2021, police alleged in paperwork cited within the Victoria state Supreme Courtroom.
Justice James Elliott dominated that the junior physician be launched on the situation he dwell along with his mother and father, who moved from Singapore to Melbourne in anticipation of their son’s month in jail ending. His mother and father had been required to publish a 50,000 Australian greenback ($32,000) surety.
Trainee surgeon Ryan Cho leaves the Supreme Courtroom of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia, Aug. 22, 2025.
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The prosecutor argued that Cho had no significant ties to Australia after being suspended from his job and the costs in opposition to him might be an inducement to flee. Whereas Cho grew to become an Australian everlasting resident in April, he would face deportation if he was convicted and sentenced to 12 months or longer in jail, Hammill mentioned.
The choose famous Cho had surrendered his Singapore passport and had no prison connections to assist him depart Australia.
Cho ignored reporters’ questions as he left the court docket constructing carrying sun shades over his prescription glasses and a surgical face masks.
Police allege Cho recorded intimate photos of at the very least 460 ladies. The choose famous there was no allegation Cho had disseminated these photos.
Cho was arrested in July after a cellphone was discovered recording from inside a mesh bag hanging in an Austin Hospital restroom. Police allege he additionally recorded in restrooms within the Peter MacCallum Most cancers Middle and the Royal Melbourne Hospital.
His lawyer Julian McMahon rejected prosecutors’ fears that if launched, Cho may intervene with witnesses. There have been more likely to be lots of of witnesses alleging related offenses, McMahon mentioned.
“There’s a sense here that if my client were to engage in the criminal offense of interfering with witnesses that it wouldn’t affect the outcome of the case,” McMahon mentioned.
Cho was initially charged with six offenses however one other 127 fees had been added Thursday, together with deliberately recording intimate photos with out permission.
McMahon mentioned it was too early to inform if the allegations would go to trial. Cho hasn’t entered pleas.
Cho got here to Australia as a scholar in 2017 and studied medication at Melbourne’s Monash College.
In related case, a former Pittsburgh space hospital worker admitted to videotaping workers and sufferers in a rest room on the West Penn Hospital throughout his trial in early 2021. A choose sentenced Man Caley to 11 to 22 months in jail adopted by 10 years of probation.
He pleaded responsible in Could 2021 to 89 counts in reference to secretly videotaping the individuals.
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