The former Oregon State University student cited on an accusation of shooting a pornographic video in an on-campus library faces as much as one year in jail and a fine of $6,250 if found guilty of the misdemeanor charge she faces.
The woman was identified Thursday as 19-year-old Kendra Jane Sunderland.
Sunderland, whose last known address was in Salem, was cited Tuesday afternoon by Oregon State Police Trooper Christopher Graves for public indecency, the most serious level of misdemeanor crimes.
Graves contact with Sunderland was entered in the OSP daily desk log maintained at the school by police. Sunderland admitted to Graves that she shot the video in the library last October, according to the log.
Sunderland, who is not enrolled this term at the university, was cited after Graves viewed the video of Sunderland allegedly recording herself performing a solo sex act on the sixth floor of the main campus library, university officials said.
Sunderland is listed on the university's website as having studied human development and family science when she attended the school.
The video was posted on the adult website Pornhub, but has since been removed.
Steve Clark, an Oregon State University spokesman, said university leaders learned about the video on Tuesday but it is believed the film was recorded during the fall semester.
Clark said as soon as university leaders learned of the video, they took action. Oregon State Police launched an investigation and cited Sunderland.
Typically, Benton County Courthouse officials said, someone cited for misdemeanor offenses are told to make a court appearance on the charges in two to three weeks.
Tuesday's complaint had not made its way to the courthouse by early Thursday.
Although the campus library is patrolled by security personnel and campus police, the building is 340,000 square feet and all of it can't be monitored all the time, leaving an opportunity for such incidents to happen, Clark said.
Under Oregon law, a person commits the crime of public indecency "if while in, or in view of, a public place the person performs an act of sexual intercourse, an act of deviate sexual intercourse, or an act of exposing the genitals of the person with the intent of arousing the sexual desire of the person or another person."
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