Ex-Rutgers professor recorded dozens of women in bathrooms: authorities

A former professor at Rutgers University medical school has been charged in a 160-count indictment with using a hidden camera to record dozens of women in a bathroom — and breaking into his colleagues’ offices to commit identity theft.

Dr. James Goydos, 58, was initially out on leave from Rutgers after he was arrested March 30, 2018, at his East Brunswick home and charged with having an unlicensed assault firearm in the basement.

On Wednesday, Middlesex County Prosecutor Andrew Carey announced an indictment, issued in December, noting a wide range of alleged crimes during a two-year period at the Cancer Institute of New Jersey offices in New Brunswick and elsewhere, NJ.com reported.

The charges include invasion of privacy, official misconduct, burglary, computer theft, impersonation, wiretapping, falsely implicating another, coercion, hindering, possession of an assault rifle and possession of a prohibited device.

In 2017, Goydos is accused of surreptitiously recording 26 women and three others whose genders were not identified in various stages of undress, according to the indictment.

Prosecutor’s spokeswoman Andrea Boulton said the victims were recorded in a bathroom at Goydos’ workplace, but not in his capacity as a physician.

Peter McDonough Jr., a Rutgers spokesman, said the university promptly contacted the Middlesex County Prosecutor’s Office after learning of the doctor’s alleged activities.

Goydos — who specialized in melanoma treatment — entered the offices of four people in the Cancer Institute of New Jersey in 2016 and swiped information from their computers in a “scheme to defraud, or to obtain services, property, personal identifying information or money,” according to the indictment.

He then impersonated the workers to get “benefit for himself or another, or to injure or defraud another,” the document said.

Goydos was director of the Melanoma and Soft Tissue Oncology Program at Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School.

“Dr. Goydos is not employed at the University,” the school told mycentraljersey.com in a statement. “Dr. Goydos was initially banned from the University and subsequently resigned.”

A message left at Goydos’ home by NJ.com was not returned. His attorney did not return a message.

He is scheduled to appear in New Brunswick Superior Court on March 18.