<p>TAMPA, Fla. — A former Florida teacher was convicted Thursday of secretly recording 124 students and an adult teacher undressing over a period of nearly two years.</p>
<p>Mark William Ackett, 52, pleaded guilty in Hillsborough County Circuit Court to more than 300 counts of video voyeurism, the <a href="https://www.tampabay.com/news/hillsborough/2021/04/01/former-bloomingdale-teacher-pleads-guilty-in-voyeurism-case/">Tampa Bay Times</a> reported. He faces the possibility of life in prison at his May 10 sentencing.</p>
<p>Ackett, who taught fashion design and coached girls track at Bloomingdale High School, quit shortly after his 2018 arrest.</p>
<p>A 17-year-old student was changing clothes in a dressing area inside a fashion design classroom in September 2018 when she noticed a box on a shelf with a light coming from it, investigators said. She found a cellphone recording a video inside the box and told the school’s principal, who contacted the sheriff’s office.</p>
<p>Ackett admitted to deputies that he had been recording students without their knowledge, officials said. The recordings began in January 2017.</p>
