Perv NY hospital worker dodges jail time despite admitting he filmed up to 13K with secret bathroom cam

A Long Island hospital worker admitted Tuesday that he filmed as many as 13,000 patients and staff in the bathroom — but was shockingly spared jail time by the judge, leaving the DA filled with “disappointment and disgust.”

Sanjai Syamaprasad, 48, will only get five years of probation after he pleaded guilty to using a camera disguised as a smoke detector to spy on patients, workers and even children while they used the restrooms at two Northwell Health Sleep Disorders Center in Manhasset.

The former sleep tech changed his original April not guilty plea to guilty on five counts of unlawful surveillance, and two counts of tampering with evidence.

He was caught attempting to toss several memory cards and recording devices into a dumpster near his Brooklyn home — shortly after he was caught and reported by a coworker for watching the bathroom footage on his phone while at work.

“My reaction to five years probation is disappointment and disgust — this case deserved jail time,” Nassau County District Attorney Anne Donnelly told reporters after the plea hearing. 

“What he did, the number of people he exposed — over 300 plus videos we have — and you treat that with probation? I think it’s wrong and that’s why I was recommending upstate jail time.”

During the plea hearing, Judge Meryl Berkowitz shut down Assistant District Attorney Kelsey Lorer’s prison time recommendation, pointing out that the DA’s office no longer had a say since he pleaded guilty to all seven charges.

Berkowitz, who is expected to retire this year after 26 years on the bench, said she factored in the remorse expressed by Syamaprasad and noted his enrollment in a treatment program.

“I made you a promise that I will give you five years probation,” the judge said to Syamaprasad in court. “If you violate that you are looking at one to three years.”

The Northwell Health facility that Syamaprasad operated out of has now been caught in several class-action lawsuits for millions of dollars. 

Syamaprasad worked the overnight shift at the Northwell Sleep Disorders Center in Manhasset between July 2023 and April 2024 and filmed thousands of both patients and co-workers, some multiple times — and he may have bought his first covert recording device as early as August 2022, officials said.

Northwell has so far sent out 13,000 letters to each potential victim, with attorneys estimating the true number of victims could be even higher as investigators continue to comb through months of footage.

“The damage done by this breach of privacy is not just emotional — it’s a violation of our most basic expectations of safety and decency,” Benjamin Dell and Christopher Dean, the two attorneys who filed the most recent case, told The Post. “We expect answers. We expect accountability. And most importantly, we need real assurances that this will never happen again.”