Attorney General Josh Shapiro announced criminal charges against a Franklin County man who surreptitiously videotaped 206 patients at UPMC Carlisle, including nearly two dozen minors. The charges against Michael Bragg follow his arrest in April by the Office of Attorney General for producing and possessing child pornography and aggravated indecent assault against two children. Of the victims, Shapiro said Bragg, 39 — in addition to videotaping hundreds of patients without consent — sexually assaulted a nude, intubated and unconscious woman in the hospital’s emergency room, and touched the breasts of another emergency room patient. In April, Bragg was initially arrested by the Office of Attorney General following a search of his Buttercup Drive, Chambersburg, home where agents found secretly recorded videos of children using the bathroom there, plus other videos of child pornography. Bragg was also charged with aggravated indecent assault and indecent assault for the alleged sexual abuse of two minors. As the investigation continued, Shapiro said agents also investigated the circumstances of videos of hospital patients in various stages of undress that were discovered on Bragg’s laptop computer, which led to his arrest.
