(NEWSER) – Hadley Palmer, the daughter of a hedge fund founder who is in the process of divorcing her venture capitalist husband and lives in a $10 million mansion at the Connecticut seaside, must now register as a sex offender.
The 53-year-old, who is often photographed at society events like charity galas and lives in the same wealthy enclave where a Kennedy cousin was accused of killing Martha Moxley, pleaded guilty last month to three counts of voyeurism and one count of child endangerment and is currently behind bars serving the minimum sentence of 90 days.
She'll be sentenced in August to somewhere between that amount and a maximum of five years in prison; her plea deal also includes 20 years of probation, the Stamford Advocate reports. She was arrested Oct. 22.
Not much is known about the strange case because a judge sealed the case last week, but Palmer "knowingly photographed, filmed and recorded" three people, including a minor, "without their knowledge or consent" between 2017 and 2018, according to a Feb. 1 ruling from a judge.
She did so "under circumstances where those individuals were not in plain view, and had a reasonable expectation of privacy," the ruling continues. An 83-year-old Greenwich, Connecticut, psychologist was also arrested in December in connection with the case; Dr. Jerome F. Brodlie, who specializes in treating children and adolescents, is charged with failure to report abuse, neglect or injury of a child.
According to the New York Times, all three victims were actually minors at the time, but just one was 15 or younger; recordings allegedly made by Palmer showed more than one minor in "intimate situations" without their knowledge.
