Church camp peeping tom sentenced to prison

Church camp peeping tom sentenced to prison

A man charged in Latimer County after investigators said he admitted to filming underage campers in a bathroom at a southeast Oklahoma church camp in 2023 was sentenced to prison.

Luke Andrew Bartels, 20, of Lexington, was charged in Latimer County District Court with felony counts of manufacturing child pornography, peeping tom with photographic/electronic equipment, violation of Oklahoma statute via computer and lewd molestation, according to filed recounts in June 2023 by the District 16 District Attorney’s Office.

Court records show Bartels was sentenced to five years in the custody of the Oklahoma Department of Corrections for the peeping tom charge. Bartels was also sentenced to 20 years with all but the first five-years suspended for the child pornography and lewd molestation charges.