THE WOODLANDS, Texas – One of the victims secretly recorded in a Houston-area hospital restroom is sharing their story as investigators expand charges against the hospital’s former patient care director.
Robert Shrader, 41, of Magnolia, was arrested and charged for installing two hidden cameras to secretly record coworkers, patients and patients’ families in two different bathrooms inside the Memorial Hermann The Woodlands Medical Center.
The victim who spoke with KPRC 2 asked to do so on the condition of anonymity.
However, she did share a little bit about why she was at the hospital.
“I was there on daily basis‚“ she told KPRC 2’s Gage Goulding. “The nurses were kind enough to show me, you know, ‘We have this other bathroom that we use. It’s quiet, it’s out of the way, it is private. It’s the one that we use.’”
For two weeks, she spent nearly every day in The Woodlands Medical Center as her father’s health declined, before he ultimately passed away.
She found out weeks later on social media that the bathroom she used countless times while visiting her father during his final days was rigged with a hidden camera, making her a victim of nonconsensual recording.
Gage Goulding: “When you heard that that bathroom was involved in this, describe that feeling that you had inside.”
Victim: “I’m sick to my stomach, I’m so disgusted and I’m just, I feel violated. I mean, there’s a lock on that door for a reason, for privacy, for everybody’s privacy. I mean, we’re not at this hospital for a party. You know, we are upset. We’re going through loss. We’re dealing with pain and the loss of somebody and it’s just such a violation. I’m just sick to my stomach over it. I am just f****** sick to my stomach.”
The victim tells KPRC 2 that she hasn’t received not a single message from Memorial Hermann about being a potential victim.
“No, nothing. Absolutely nothing,” she said.
The victim remembers seeing Shrader sitting in a waiting area near the second-floor bathroom.
At the time she didn’t think anything of him, but when she saw his mugshot on the news, she knew exactly who he was.
Victim: “He was hanging out in that area and the only reason I noticed him at all was because I went to use the bathroom and it was occupied, so I had to wait until it opened up and so I was just kind of hanging out looking out the glass. He was just sitting there on his phone, kind of with his head down, just silent. I definitely, when I saw the picture of his arrest, I knew immediately it was the same guy.”
Gage Goulding: “Did he give you any weird vibes? Did anything pop in your head like, ‘Oh, this guy’s weird, like this guy is up and no good?’
Victim: “I mean, honestly, no, because he was just sitting there really silent and I didn’t really have a whole lot of time to think about it. So no, to me he was just somebody sitting there.”
The victim did reach out to the Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office victim’s line, looking to learn more about the case and her involvement. She’s still waiting to hear back from detectives.
While she waits, the thought of what that camera could’ve recorded and where the images or videos might be at is something that weighs on her mind.
“[That] guy’s a creep, I mean just 100% creep,” she said. “It makes me so mad and upset. I should, we should, everybody that used that public space should be protected from this garbage of a human being.”