FORT MOHAVE — A teenager using her adoptive father’s cell phone in Fort Mohave discovered inappropriate images of herself within the device’s contents in June. That prompted a criminal investigation that led to the indictment of Raymond Cornelia, 61.
Speaking during Cornelia’s September 3 change of plea hearing in Kingman, deputy Mohave County attorney Leah Nelson said that Cornelia placed cameras around the family home in the 1500 block of E King Street. Nelson said Cornelia used the cameras to capture images of his 13 and 14-year-old adopted daughters in various states of undress and using a bathroom.
Nelson told Mohave County Superior Court Judge Lee Jantzen that one camera was placed under a bedroom desk and was trained upon a bed that one of the victims slept in. She said several videos and cell phone images were seized as evidence.
Cornelia pleaded guilty to two counts of surreptitious video recording and an attempted sexual exploitation of a minor charge. He is eligible for supervised probation, but could be sent to prison for up to five years at an October 9 sentencing hearing.
