Ex-WSU director found not guilty in hidden camera case involving girl
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- A Sedgwick County jury acquitted ex-WSU employee Christopher Garnier of all charges.
- Garnier faced six privacy breach counts tied to hidden camera recordings in 2024.
- Wichita police found videos of a girl in various states of undress on Garnier’s phone, an affidavit says.
A former Wichita State University employee accused of secretly recording a girl with an alarm clock containing a hidden camera has been acquitted of six counts of breach of privacy.
A Sedgwick County jury found Christopher Garnier not guilty on all counts Wednesday morning, court records show. His trial started Monday.
Garnier was charged after Wichita police found several nude and partially nude videos of the girl on his cellphone that had been taken with a hidden camera placed in her bedroom. Garnier told investigators the camera was meant to ensure the girl “was not getting herself in trouble” and had nothing to do with sexual gratification, a probable cause affidavit released in the case says.
A judge previously dismissed multiple counts of sexual exploitation of a child, finding there was not enough evidence to support the charges.
Garnier, 46, had been director of Executive Education and Center for Management Development for the W. Frank Barton School of Business at WSU, but his employment ended around the time he was arrested, on May 2, 2024.
