Former Jordan District bus driver charged with voyeurism in Herriman bus recording

HERRIMAN — A former Jordan School District bus driver has been charged with voyeurism for allegedly recording a child on a school bus on Oct. 8, KSL reported, citing charging documents 4. KSL reported that Gabriele Basile, 64, of Herriman, was charged Monday in 3rd District Court with voyeurism, a third-degree felony 4.

The charge is a step the case had not reached when this paper last reported it. The Ledger reported on Oct. 29 that Basile had been booked into the Salt Lake County Jail for investigation of voyeurism, after Herriman police served a search warrant on his phone 2. That report, citing KUTV, put the booking at two counts of voyeurism, a third-degree felony, and one count of using a wireless device while driving, a class C misdemeanor 2. KSL's account of the charge states the offense and its degree but not how many counts were filed 4. This paper's Oct. 30 report said the district told the Tribune that he is no longer employed by it 1, and a district spokeswoman told KSL that he has since been fired 3.

The charging documents, as KSL quoted them, describe the phone held near his lap, the camera turned toward a girl seated in the first seat to the right of the driver, then briefly toward his own face, and then back toward her 4. Police pulled the hard drive from the bus and reviewed footage in which Basile is handling something with his hands, without being able to make out what, the documents state 4. The incident occurred in Salt Lake County as the bus was departing an elementary school, according to the same account 4. KSL's Oct. 29 report of the booking affidavit states that the original video and a second video of the same child were found among his deleted videos, and that the footage shows the bus continuously moving while he drives 3.

The case reached the district through his family. The video appeared in a Google account Basile shares with his wife, who confronted him and, according to the charging documents, was told that it had been an accident and that he had not known he was recording 4. When she searched his phone, she found the search history cleared and everything deleted off it, the documents state 4. KSL's Oct. 29 report, taken from the booking affidavit, states that when Basile did not report himself, his wife asked their daughter to report the incident and provide the video to district officials 3. A district spokeswoman told KSL that once the district learned of the allegations, it reported them to Herriman police immediately and removed Basile from his bus driving duties 3.

The Ledger is not naming the school involved and is withholding the girl's age, grade and other identifying detail, under its standards for coverage that involves a minor. It is also not repeating statements in the documents about Basile's personal history that other outlets have reported.

Basile has not been convicted of anything; a charge is an allegation. What the record does not yet show is a first appearance date, whether he has retained counsel, or the sentence range on the count filed. None of those appeared in the reporting cited here 4.