SUFFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — A Suffolk physician who lives in Norfolk is discovering himself on the incorrect aspect of the regulation and now he’s and not using a job.  

10 On Your Facet discovered Dr. Giovanni Geronilla, 43, has been charged with a Class One Misdemeanor for “creating an illegal picture of one other.” 

The incident allegedly occurred on June 7, he was arrested June 30, and he appeared Thursday in courtroom to get bond. 

Geronilla is accused of placing his cellular phone below the gown of an unsuspecting colleague and taking a video.   

In response to the courtroom doc, the sufferer says she was at a charting station taking notes when abruptly she seemed down, and he or she noticed a cellphone between her toes, and it was within the upward place digicam lens up.

The sufferer says Dr. Geronilla had been standing uncomfortably shut, she noticed him decide up the cellphone, she requested if this was his cellphone, and he mentioned sure. She believes, in keeping with the courtroom doc, that he was recoding her from beneath her gown. 

The officer discovered three different witnesses who confirmed the identical story because the sufferer that the physician dropped the cellphone, digicam lens upward.

On Thursday, Geronilla bought bond and was placed on home arrest with digital monitoring.  

10 On Your Facet went to his home, and he didn’t reply the door. A neighbor said they noticed police on the home and Geronilla was taken out of the storage door in handcuffs.

10 On Your Facet additionally reached out to the Bayview Physicians Group who said that the first care doctor, Geronilla, is now not employed with them.  

Learn the total assertion from the group under:

“Giovanni (Ivan) Geronilla, MD, was beforehand employed by our group. He’s now not employed. We’re totally cooperating with the authorities of their investigation.”  

Geronilla is anticipated to plead not responsible on July 19 to creating an illegal picture of one other. 

Within the legal grievance, the arresting officer said that Geronilla has a historical past of “illegal filming up the skirts of others.” 

10 years in the past, it seems the Dr. was caught putting a cellular phone inside a purchasing basket in Connecticut taking movies below the skirts of ladies. 

10 Your Facet contacted Bayview Physicians Group to ask in the event that they had been conscious of the physician’s previous when he was employed, and the spokesperson mentioned, “I can’t converse to that.” 

Suffolk Police additionally had no additional remark saying the case stays below investigation.