The FBI recently released a photo of John Towers, who was recently arrested by both the Putnam County Sherriff and the FBI for sexual exploitation of a minor and possession of child pornography.
Towers, 54, and a resident of Mahopac is free on a $200,000 bond.
The federal indictment accuses Towers of placing hidden cameras in a bathroom in a privately owned, public park in Putnam County, New York, to surreptitiously record prepubescent minors in order to capture sexually explicit images of the minors. TOWERS then transferred the recordings to a hard drive.
Following the execution of a search warrant at TOWERS’s residence, law enforcement recovered a hard drive that was found to contain over 800 videos of females, including prepubescent females, using a bathroom. Approximately 78 of the videos had file names that included the term “yung.”
For several weeks, parents of young children in Northern Westchester and Putnam that used the county parks were asking, (some demanding) to know which park is referenced in the indictment?
While there has been no response from law enforcement, some good journalistic work found out. Thanks to the Highlands Current, and reporter Chip Rowe, for determining that Towers worked at Stonecrop Gardens in Cold Spring. (https://highlandscurrent.org/2024/05/03/ex-stonecrop-employee-accused-of-filming-girls/).
According to the story, Towers has been terminated by Stonecrop Gardens, who is cooperating with the investigation.
Anyone who may have relevant information regarding JOHN TOWERS is asked to contact the FBI at 1-800-CALL-FBI (225-5324).
