On the night of October 30, 2023 I received a text message with screenshots showing my then fiancee, Patrick Bryant, active on a dating app. In South Carolina, politics is a bloodsport. I thought this was your usual run-of-the-mill political game. I thought this was a joke. After more women came forward, I realized this was not for laughs. When I confronted Patrick Bryant 4 days later on November 3rd, the first thing he did was put his phone in his safe, just like this one, and lock it. Soon after, I learned the dating app was the least of my worries.

Two days later Patrick Bryant put my thumbprint on his phone and gave me the four digit code to his safe. The night I was given legal access to his phone, I opened it for the first time, and what I discovered shook me to my core. I saw a video of a woman who was incapacitated and she was being raped. I found some photos of what appeared to be a teenager undressed, in the kind of underwear a child would wear. To me, her facial expression looked nervous. I saw a video of another woman who was naked, clearly on a hidden camera, unaware she was being filmed.

She was slender. She had long brown hair.

I turned up the volume to hear if there was audio.
I heard my voice.
I zoomed in on the video.

The woman was me.

I was in shock. I didn’t believe it. I couldn’t believe it.

I was horrified.
I was humiliated.
I was violated.

This monster stole my body from me. Without my knowledge, without my permission, and without my consent.

This hidden camera was located at a property Patrick Bryant owns with one of his business partners named Brian Musgrave.

Here is a similar camera, bought on Amazon.

I found an app where the files of at least one hidden camera were stored. I discovered there were 10,633 videos on this one device.

Let me repeat, just one camera I found had 10,633 videos on it.

I found more photos, this time of female employees, wives of male employees, girlfriends and other women who very clearly didn’t know their private parts were being filmed or photographed.

I found file after file. Patrick Bryant had upskirt photos of one particular victim, the wife of a male employee who is also one of his closest friends. He took upskirt photos of his employee’s wife for at least 8 straight years. He even took upskirt photographs of her on their family vacations. I found about a dozen photos in Patrick Bryant’s trash bin of underage girls he deleted in the hours after giving me access to his phone. I recognized three of the underage girls were daughters of business partners, some in bikinis.

One of these jarring photos was of an underage girl fully clothed, her legs spread open, unaware she was being photographed. Patrick Bryant took this photo with his cell phone from his penis area.

In my accidental discovery, I found multiple devices used to record women without their knowledge. And that’s before I get to what I uncovered with Patrick Bryant and his business partners.