Eighteen women are suing La Plata County in southwestern Colorado alleging that its jail’s top commander accessed invasive videos of deputies searching and prodding their naked bodies for contraband and watched the footage thousands of times from his home, office and hotel rooms for his personal gratification.

The federal class-action lawsuit filed Wednesday accuses Edward Aber, the former jail commander, of watching strip-search videos of 115 women over and over by accessing the jail’s evidence database at least 3,166 times over five years. Attorneys expect the number of victims to grow.

Aber allegedly accessed the videos in the early-morning and late-night hours, stored the videos and screenshots from the strip searches on his personal devices and wiped them when he realized he was bei

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