Christopher Carl didn't try to hide what he was doing.
He walked into the ladies room at the Weis Market in Ephrata, where he worked at the time, police said.
Carl reached up and held his iPhone over the top of a bathroom stall. Then he took a picture of a girl who was sitting on the toilet in the stall, according to his arrest warrant affidavit.
And the girl wasn't the only one to have her picture snapped, police said.
When police confiscated Carl's phone, they found photos or videos of five women and girls, some as young as 10 years old, as they used the bathroom.
"This is pretty bizarre," Ephrata Borough police Detective Graeme Quinn said. "This is a first."
Carl, 26, of Washington Boro, was charged with three counts of corruption of minors and six counts of invasion of privacy for his alleged actions at the Weis store, 331 N. Reading Road, Quinn said.
Police encountered Carl after the girl's mother called police from the store Oct. 24.
The mother told police that her two daughters and one of their friends went to the ladies room at the store.
One of the daughters told police that while they were in there, a man came in and took a picture or video of her as she was using the bathroom.
The girl said the man held a phone over the bathroom stall, from outside the stall, and directed the lens at her as she sat on the toilet, according to the affidavit.
The girl described the phone as silver, covered by a clear case and with a picture of an apple on it, adding she thought it was an iPhone.
The girl's friend told police that she saw the man through a gap in her stall. The girl's sister said that she saw the man's shoes, which were black sneakers.
As police spoke to the group, Carl walked past them, according to the affidavit.
The girl "immediately identified Carl as the man who took a picture of her while she was in the bathroom," the affidavit said.
Police said they spoke briefly to Carl, who acknowledged he was near the ladies room that day to retrieve a "wet floor" sign. But he said he never went into the restroom.
Carl told police that he did own an iPhone and earlier had it in the store. But he said he put it in his vehicle in the parking lot because store policy forbids employees from carrying cell phones at work.
He agreed to walk with police to his vehicle to retrieve the phone for safekeeping of potential evidence, the affidavit said.
The phone matched the girl's description, police said.
And Carl was wearing black sneakers, police observed.
Police then reviewed video from a store security camera, which showed the three girls walking toward the ladies room with Carl following closely behind them, police said.
Shortly afterward, the affidavit states, "The surveillance video shows the girls running out of the bathroom, followed by Carl. Carl then turned and walked toward another section of the store."
Carl was not carrying a "wet floor" sign at the time.
Police obtained a search warrant for Carl's phone. A special agent from the state attorney general's office examined the images on it.
The agent recovered seven images of five girls and women in the Weis ladies room. Three images were of the girls in the bathroom the day police were called to the store, they said. Two others were of unidentified women and girls.
Carl, who was a grocery leader, is no longer employed by Weis, a company spokesman said.
Anyone with information about the case is asked to call Quinn at 738-9200, ext. 242.