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Junior Doctor Accused of Toilet Spying Hit with 127 New Charges

Ryan Cho faces 127 charges including stalking and producing intimate images after over 10,000 videos were found from staff toilets and showers at Melbourne hospitals.

  • On Wednesday, Mernda Sexual Offence and Child Abuse Investigation Team detectives laid an additional 127 charges against junior doctor Ryan Cho, related to alleged secret recordings at the Austin Hospital, Royal Melbourne Hospital and Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre.
  • After Austin Hospital staff found a device on July 3, police focused on Ryan Cho, who was charged on July 10 and had phones, a laptop, mesh bags, and hooks seized.
  • Forensics identified roughly 4,500 intimate videos captured between 2021 and 2025, police say investigators uncovered more than 10,000 images and a seized hard drive with 10,374 files, and detectives found named folders and video footage showing Cho setting up a device.
  • Cho remains in custody and was refused bail on July 25, with further Victorian Supreme Court bail hearings scheduled this Thursday and Friday; the Australian Health Practitioner Regulation Agency has suspended him from practising.
  • Police warn identifying further victims will take time, investigations extend to other medical facilities where Cho worked between 2020 and 2025, and Austin Health is supporting affected staff and assisting police.
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Doctor accused of toilet filming faces fresh charges

A junior doctor accused of secretly filming in hospital staff toilets has been slapped with another 127 charges...

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The Age broke the news in Australia on Thursday, August 21, 2025.
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