Ryan Selleny pleaded guilty to burglary, theft and indecent assault

An Upper Merion man pleaded guilty Friday split in two stealing underwear and other belongings from three women from their neighbors’ flats and filming one of the women in various states of undress using a hidden camera.

Ryan Selleny, 28, also admitted to filming himself masturbating in the woman’s bed. mixing body fluids into juice containers and the water he unknowingly consumed in a case that Deputy District Attorney Lauren Marvel later said was one of the worst thefts she could imagine.

“Not only did he violate these individuals’ sense of safety and comfort in their own homes, but he also physically harmed the body of one of our victims, without her even knowing, until he produced evidence of this so he could explain it to her.” Marvel said on Friday.

Seleny begged. against burglary, theft, indecent assault and related offences. during a hearing before Montgomery County Court Judge Wendy Rothstein. Rothstein accepted his plea and postponed sentencing for three months to allow him to undergo a psychosexual evaluation.

As part of his plea, Selleny must register as a sex offender for 25 years.

Upper Merion police began investigating Selleny in March after finding a recording device disguised as a smartphone charger plugged into an outlet in one of the victims’ apartment. It did not recognize the device and did not place it there.

Investigators found hidden camera footage of Selleny masturbating at the woman’s home and entering the apartment when she wasn’t there.

Police later determined that the victim entered the Kingswood Apartments home five times between Oct. 30 and March 24, according to the affidavit of probable cause for his arrest. He stole the woman’s spare key during a burglary; Officers said they later found the key in the woman’s apartment at the complex, along with her underwear and sex toys.

Prosecutors said he often waited for the victim to leave his home and obsessively filmed himself during each home invasion.

During the investigation, detectives discovered other underwear and sex toys in Selleny’s home that the first victim said did not belong to her, as well as images from a different apartment in the same complex.

They interviewed two women who had previously lived in the second apartment, who said they did not know Selleny and did not allow him into their home.

The affidavit stated that the women told detectives that they noticed many items missing from their apartment between October and February, with the majority going missing in February.

They also said that when they returned home, they saw that the laundry piles were in disarray and the doors they had left closed were open.