Police say South Beloit man recorded sex videos of 4 women, shared them online

SOUTH BELOIT, Ill. (WTVO) — Police have arrested Jeremiah Harms, 48, of South Beloit, who is accused of taking unauthorized sexual videos and photos of four different women and distributing them on the internet.

According to the South Beloit Police Department, police were contacted by a woman in December 2024 who claimed Harms had taken private videos and photos of her without her consent and was posting them online.

Investigators ultimately discovered that Harms had secretly recorded four victims in sexual situations and shared them with “numerous other people,” police said.

Harm’s residence was searched on February 19th and police said electronic devices were seized and analyzed.

He faces 12 counts of Unauthorized Video Recording and 12 counts of Nonconsensual Dissemination of a Sexual Image.

Harms was booked into the Winnebago County Jail awaiting the outcome of a pretrial detention hearing.