TEXARKANA, Texas -- A man indicted Thursday in Bowie County on charges of filming an 11-year-old girl secretly in her bathroom has a 2017 conviction for secretly filming the daughter of a woman he dated in Cass County.
Jarrod Wade Dee, 36, has been charged with invasive visual recording in Bowie County. Dee allegedly lived in a mobile home on the same property in Texarkana, Texas, as a couple and their 11-year-old daughter, according to a probable cause affidavit.
The girl's father reportedly told Bowie County Sheriff's Office investigators that he has known Dee since elementary school and that the two have been friends "all of their adult lives." While Dee lived behind the couple's home in a trailer and did not have a key to their house, he allegedly was free to come and go when they were home to do laundry.
The couple found a digital recording device hidden under a bathroom cabinet Dec. 5. They removed the memory card from the device and put it into a home computer.
"The video appeared to depict Mr. Dee attaching the camera to its location under a cabinet in a bathroom," the affidavit states.
Dee allegedly was at the couple's home when the recording equipment was found and "immediately left upon seeing it had been discovered."
Deputies who responded to the couple's 911 call attempted to make contact with Dee that day but there was no answer at his door and he did not appear to be at home. The memory card was turned over to an investigator with BCSO.
The device allegedly contains six, two-minute video clips of a bathroom in the couple's home.
The first video allegedly shows Dee placing the device.
The next five clips allegedly show the couple's 11-year-old daughter entering the bathroom, disrobing, entering a shower, exiting the shower and getting dressed.
Dee was convicted of invasive visual recording by a Cass County, Texas, jury in 2017 and sentenced to a maximum two-year term. The girl's mother, who was living with Dee in Bloomburg, Texas, found a recording in July 2015 of her daughter entering the bathroom, undressing and showering.
A short clip of the Cass County video showed the hands of the person placing the camera in the bathroom. Dee has tattoos on his hands that allowed for his identification.
Dee is being held in the Bowie County jail with bail set at $40,000. If convicted of invasive visual recording, Dee faces six months to two years in a state jail.
His case is pending before 5th District Judge Bill Miller.