NEW YORK (AP) – A janitor at a Brooklyn high school was charged with unlawful surveillance after investigators found a peephole in the school’s bathroom wall and video recordings of naked children in his home, police said Wednesday.

Michael Conte, 46, was arrested by Suffolk County police on Tuesday for illegally videotaping a female acquaintance, police said. Under questioning he confessed to carrying out further surveillance at Westinghouse High School, they said.

Detectives later found a hole in a bathroom wall at the school.

With a warrant, they searched Conte’s Staten Island home, where they said they found hundreds of video cassettes, CDs and computer floppy disks with apparently secretly recorded images of naked children and adults. They said they also found surveillance and video equipment and a shotgun.

The Department of Education said it had fired Conte.

Conte was charged by the NYPD with unlawful surveillance, criminal possession of a weapon and endangering the welfare of a child.

He was being held by police before his arraignment.

“This outrageous conduct is just plain wrong and has no place in our schools or society,” Department of Education General Counsel Michael Best said. “Mr. Conte has been relieved of his duties and he never again will be allowed near anyone in our schools.”

There was no telephone listing for Conte in Staten Island. Police and the Department of Education said they could not reveal his address.