PHILIPPI – Four former women’s basketball players at Alderson Broaddus University have filed lawsuits against the school alleging privacy invasion related to a hidden camera in a resident hall bathroom, according to court documents.

Former assistant women’s basketball coach and Kincaid Hall resident director Collins Murphy was named as a defendant in the lawsuits, court records show. O’Dell Eargle was named as a defendant in two of the four suits.

The four ABU students who filed the lawsuits are Kristin Burnside, Cayla Rhodes, Erica Brooks and Emily Sarver, records show. They were players on the women’s basketball team who resided in Kincaid Hall on sports scholarships, according to complaints filed in Barbour Circuit Court.

The players claim Murphy had access to the resident areas, including restrooms and student dorms.

In September, the players discovered someone had hidden an imaging device in the restroom of the dormatory. The lawsuits allege the camera was used to take photographs of the players and other residents while using the restroom and shower. The photographs showed the women and their roommates fully nude, according to the lawsuits.

Murphy allegedly confessed to placing the camera and taking the photographs while under investigation by the Philippi Police Department, the lawsuits allege.

The women claim the ongoing invasion of privacy caused them irreparable harm and are seeking compensatory and punitive damages.

Burnside is represented by Gabrielle E. Ash. Rhodes is represented by Tammy Bowles Raines, Stephen P. New and Amanda J. Taylor. Brooks and Sarver are represented by Steven M. Bragg.