Former school administrator accused of peeping had hundreds of photos: documents

Charlotte-Mecklenburg police said they discovered hundreds of photos of women on the phone of former private school principal Scott Michael Waybright.

The former assistant principal of the Charlotte Country Day School of Academics was arrested Friday and charged with five felony counts of secret peeping and five counts of possession of a photographic image obtained in violation of the peeping statute.

The principal of a private school in Charlotte is accused of secret peeping, police say

According to court documents, the 58-year-old man took inappropriate photos of students and random women.

The former administrator has been banned from the school where he worked for almost thirty years.

The school had a private investigator perform a forensic search on his work phone and laptop and found “inappropriate photos,” including “hundreds of photos of women’s legs and butts,” according to court documents.

All were turned over to the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department.

Several photos “appear to be of students at the school” and “unknown women in public places such as the grocery store and swimming pools,” although it is unclear which ones, investigators said.

No one came to Waybright’s door when a Channel 9 crew went to his home Monday.

A neighbor, who asked not to be identified, said she was there when police entered.

“It was absolutely shocking,” the woman said. “I mean, we were all blown away by what we heard. To be honest, it made us feel sick because he works at a school and he’s been working at a school for so long.

According to court records, a teacher at the school first reported an incident last year about a student saying Waybright was taking pictures of her.

The then-principal searched Waybright’s phone but reportedly found nothing.

However, the reporting teacher ‘apparently felt that the situation had not been handled properly’ and ‘believed the student’.

Then the private investigator was hired who would have found everything.

“The behavior is creepy and sickening, to be honest,” the neighbor said.

According to a court statement, another complaint was filed about him in 2017.

A man said he believed Waybright had taken photos of his wife at the library, but no evidence was found.

The school sent a letter to parents last week.

Waybright’s attorney appeared in court on his behalf Monday.

He is out on bail.