Ex-dental assistant accused of sexually assaulting patients now suspected in OSU peeping tom case
STILLWATER, Okla. (KFOR) — The former dental assistant accused of filming while he sexually assaulted sedated young male patients is now a suspect in a 2021 ‘peeping tom’ incident reported on Oklahoma State University’s campus
On Monday, OSU Campus Police (OSUPD) confirmed to News 4 they’ve identified Cody Allen Stolfa, 36, as a suspect in a case from Sept. 2021 when someone reported a man matching Stolfa’s description took unwanted pictures of them in OSU’s library.
Stolfa has been in jail since Stillwater Police (SPD) arrested him on July 10 on accusations he filmed himself sexually assaulting a young male patient who was sedated following an oral surgery at Central Oklahoma Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery Associates in Stillwater, where Stolfa worked as a dental assistant.
As News 4 reported last week, following Solfa’s July arrest, SPD served warrants for and seized Stolfa’s phones and computers, finding more videos he allegedly shot in that dental clinic.
In total, police say he filmed himself sexually assaulting 16 male patients between the ages of 15 and 23 during the three months he worked at the clinic in 2021.
They also unearthed 3.2 Terabytes worth of files containing child sexual abuse material, and more homemade pictures and videos of people who appeared to not be aware they were on camera.
OSUPD Public Information Officer, Capt. Colt Chandler, told News 4 SPD investigators believed some of the concerning pictures appeared to have been taken on OSU’s campus.
“The imagery in the background, like wallpaper environment that you could capture or see in the video, looked like places that could potentially be on campus,” Chandler told News 4 on Monday.
He said OSUPD and SPD investigators matched the pictures to a location in the OSU campus library.
He said metadata on the pictures showed they were taken in 2021.
With that information in mind, OSUPD investigators looked back through crime report logs from that year and location.
“In review of our cases, we found out that we had a peeping tom case reported to us in 2021—late September,” Chandler said.
In that case, someone reported a man matching Stolfa’s description took unwanted pictures of them on his phone.
The victim reportedly could see the pictures on the man’s phone screen before he left the library.
OSU Police looked back at surveillance pictures taken in the library on that day in 2021.
“In one of those photographs was a pretty unique tattoo that's located on the suspect's left calf,” Chandler said. "And so we shared that information with SPD and they were able to confirm that that is indeed the suspect involved in both cases.”
Chandler says OSUPD has now referred the peeping tom case to the Payne County District Attorney’s Office, who will determine whether or not Stolfa will face charges.
He says while OSUPD has only been able to tie Stolfa to the one case from 2021, they want anyone who feels like he may have done something similar to them, to please give OSUPD a call.
Meanwhile, Stolfa faces a slew of criminal charges for the allegations at the dental clinic.
Tulsa-based Attorney Tim Gilpin says it probably won’t end with that.
“Civil liability comes to mind not only for the person that did it, but their employer,” Gilpin said.
News 4 has learned at least one of the patients plans to file a civil suit.
The patient’s attorneys declined to comment on Monday.
Gilpin said he would not be surprised to see the multiple patients sue to clinic.
“The employer's obligation is to monitor their employees to check their backgrounds, and to make sure they're not the kind of people and that they're not doing this kind of thing to their patients.”
News 4 checked with the Oklahoma State Board of Dentistry.
They confirmed they did issue Stolfa a permit to work as a dental assistant back in April 2021 after he passed a background check and met all other requirements.
The permit expired in December 2021 after Stolfa stopped working at the clinic.