VIRGINIA BEACH, Va. — A former church leader who took 200 videos of men in bathrooms across Virginia Beach was sentenced on Wednesday.
Aloysius Marcus Albritton, 45, pleaded guilty to eight counts of unlawful filming and eight counts of using a peephole to view a nonconsenting person after getting arrested in June of 2025.
With his phone, he’d prey on men in gas stations, the mall, and many other public bathrooms over the span of two-and-a-half months.
Albritton was sentenced Wednesday to 27 months in prison. He has already served 14 months since being held without bond since his arrest, leaving 13 months left on his sentence.
However, due to the charges being misdemeanors he only has to serve half the sentence if he's been on good behavior while in jail. That means with 14 months already served, he could get out of jail sometime soon.
Defense Attorney Happy O'Brien argued he should out of jail for time served. Meanwhile, the prosecutor was asking for 12 months for each of the 16 total charges he pleaded guilty to.
In the end, several people were shocked at the lenient sentence imposed by the judge including Virginia Beach Firefighter Taylor Ewing is one of his victims.
Ewing took the stand and gave powerful testimony in court.
"I'm not just a collection of video or pictures for his disposal or whatever he is doing with it. I’m an actual person and this impacted me to the point where I can’t use a public restroom anymore without looking over my shoulder or having someone watch out for me," said Ewing. "It is way more impactful than just having a creepy collection of people from a bathroom were real people the other victims in this too and we need to be heard.
Taylor looked Albritton straight in the eye on the stand and told him the terrible effect his actions have had on him.
"I was a victim of abuse as a child sexual, mental, and physical so you know that ways on me every day all day and you have to find different ways to deal with that and I’m a huge advocate of mental health. This was the straw that broke the camels back. I’m a man in my 40s and I thought all of that was behind me and it just resurfaced everything," said Ewing.
He said he is an advocate for mental health and said he sought treatment after this experience extremely traumatized him.
WTKR has gathered eight previous mug shots of Albritton.
Over the past decade in Virginia Beach, Norfolk and Maryland he’s been arrested for taking video of people in bathrooms, failure to appear in court and driving with a suspended license, but in several of those cases the charges were dropped.
A judge previously ordered Albritton to be banned from all Virginia Beach Recreation Centers after he sexually assaulted a disabled man in 2017 while dressed like a priest in a bathroom. In that case, he pleaded guilty to three counts of sexual battery.
"Sexual violence doesn’t just happen to women. It happens to men too. It happens to all people of all walks of life so there needs to be something done about that stigma as well," said Ewing.
Until his most recent arrest, Albritton worked as the Executive Director at New Hope Church in Norfolk and holds a doctorate in Theology.
Albritton apologized to the victims in court – and said he was a victim of unresolved trauma which caused his actions.
The judge didn’t allow our camera in the courtroom.
"I don’t believe he was sentenced enough time. I think he should add more time to really sit and think about how he impacted these victims," said Ewing.
Watch previous coverage: Former church leader pleads guilty to filming men in Virginia Beach bathrooms across multiple locations
Richard James, a crime analyst, previously told News 3 that repeat behavior is common in cases like this.
"Very rarely do you have a person that's doing this activity that does it one time and stop."
Court records outline the extent of the new charges that were uncovered after police arrested him and found more videos on his phone of previous encounters.
On March 20, 2025, Albritton put his phone over a divider in a Wawa bathroom and took video of a victim without his consent as he urinated in the adjacent urinal.
On April 21, 2025, in a different Wawa, he took video of another man in the same manner.
On April 25, 2025, at a Lowe's Home Improvement store, Albritton entered a bathroom stall, stood on the toilet seat and reached his phone over the stall divider to film another victim without his consent. He then followed the victim out of the bathroom and filmed him as he walked back into the store.
Watch previous coverage: Church leader with criminal history accused of recording people in bathrooms
On May 1, 2025, at a Kroger grocery store, Albritton filmed a man in a bathroom stall without his consent — and then did it again about an hour later while still at the same store, including filming the victim underneath the stall divider.
The next day, May 2, 2025, Albritton returned to the same Kroger and filmed the same victim again without his consent.
On May 20, 2025, around 3:15 a.m., Albritton followed a man into a Crunch Fitness gym in the Chimney Hill area of Virginia Beach and attempted to film him in the bathroom.
The victim caught Albritton in the act, and Albritton fled the gym into the parking lot. The victim reported the incident to the Virginia Beach Police Department the following day.
Detectives recovered surveillance video from the gym and positively identified Albritton. He was arrested and his cell phone was seized. A search warrant executed on the phone revealed numerous other videos of Albritton filming male strangers in public restrooms.
On May 26, 2025, inside Lynnhaven Mall, Albritton filmed another man in a bathroom stall without his consent.
Records state that in all of the incidents, the genitals or buttocks of the victims were exposed as they urinated or defecated.
Court records note the victims had a reasonable expectation of privacy between the urinal or stall dividers as they used the restroom. All videos, with the exception of the last one filmed, were later accessed and viewed by Albritton on his cell phone.
James said the law is clear on what took place.
"In this particular case, you know, is a clear violation of Virginia law in terms of unlawful creation, of an image of another. People have an expectation of privacy, particularly in restrooms, and you should be able to go into a place where you have that expectation of privacy and not be concerned about someone trying to videotape you."
In 2017, WTKR reported that he was arrested after being accused of following a police officer into a Wawa bathroom and filming him while he was going to the bathroom, but those charges were nolle prossed.
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