{"id":49641,"date":"2025-12-02T03:11:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:11:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49641\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T03:11:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:11:08","slug":"former-parkland-school-district-performing-arts-director-pleads-guilty-to-secretly-recording-student","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/49641\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Parkland School District performing arts director pleads guilty to secretly recording student"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A former school administrator at Parkland High School in Lehigh County has pleaded guilty following accusations that he secretly recorded a student changing clothes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">In 2024, <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/ex-parkland-school-district-performing-arts-director-accused-recording-student-changing-during-rehearsals\/15432735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Francis Anonia,<\/a> 44, of Allentown, was charged with five felony counts each of intercept communications and criminal use of a communication facility, as well as nine misdemeanor counts of invasion of privacy.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">On Monday, the Lehigh County District Attorney&#8217;s Office announced that he pleaded guilty to all the charges.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">RELATED | <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/6abc.com\/post\/ex-parkland-school-district-performing-arts-director-accused-recording-student-changing-during-rehearsals\/15432735\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ex-performing arts director accused of recording Lehigh County student changing during rehearsals<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Anonia, who was a former chorus teacher and director of visual and performing arts with the school district, allegedly recorded a student while they changed their clothes in a school dressing room back in 2021.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Investigators say five secretly recorded videos of a student were found on Anonia&#8217;s phone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He faces a possible sentence of 44 to 88 years in state prison. He&#8217;ll also be required to register as a sex offender for at least the next 15 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">Sentencing is scheduled for February 12.<br class=\" \"\/><\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WPVI-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"ALLENTOWN, Pa. (WPVI) &#8212; A former school administrator at Parkland High School in Lehigh County has pleaded guilty&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49642,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[28589,119,121,120],"class_list":{"0":"post-49641","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-allentown","8":"tag-28589","9":"tag-allentown","10":"tag-allentown-headlines","11":"tag-allentown-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49641\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49642"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}