TAMPA – A former Tampa Prep swim coach and teacher charged with secretly videotaping students as they undressed and tried on swimsuits will remain in jail without bond.

Judge Walter Heinrich set Kimberly Brabson’s hearing off for tomorrow because of a potential conflict.

“I do not independently know this man, not that I’m aware of,” Heinrich said this morning. “But I do think I need to bring it to everyone’s attention in case there’s a potential issue. I see that he’s a swim coach and my wife is also a swim coach at a competing school.”

Brabson III is being held without bond because police fear if he gets out of jail he will leave the state.

Two years after Tampa Preparatory School officials reprimanded Brabson for having a girl try on a swimsuit in his office, detectives arrested him for secretly videotaping several other try-on sessions.

Tampa police on Thursday charged Brabson with 10 counts of video voyeurism, charges that could lead to 10 years in prison.

A physical education teacher and assistant swim coach at the school for nearly five years, Brabson, 29, was fired Nov. 10 after administrators learned that he had asked several girls to change into swimsuits in his office, head of school D. Gordon MacLeod said Thursday.

Maj. George McNamara said Thursday police recovered a videotape from a school office Brabson shared with another faculty member.

The tape shows girls ages 11 to 15 undressing and trying on swimsuits. The video, which recorded the girls from the neck to the groin, shows some of the girls removed their underwear, McNamara said.

Investigators have identified 10 children but there are more victims, McNamara said.

“We’re not even close to being done with this,” McNamara said.

Brabson was held without bail at Orient Road Jail Thursday evening.

MacLeod said Brabson had been reprimanded one to two years ago, after a female student told administrators the coach had asked her to change into a swimsuit in his office.

Brabson told school administrators he asked the girl to model a swimsuit for his niece, MacLeod said.

He was allowed to continue teaching and coaching.

Administrators did not report the incident to police because they thought it was an isolated case, he said. “We just believed him at that time,” MacLeod said.

He said school officials ran a background check on Brabson before he was hired. He has no criminal history in Florida or Pennsylvania.

Brabson was at a swim meet in early November when two girls told a school psychologist that Brabson had asked them to try on swimsuits in his office, MacLeod said.

Days later, more girls told school officials they had been asked to model. By that point, Brabson had been suspended, MacLeod said.

The school seized his computer and searched his office but did not find any inappropriate images or peepholes, MacLeod said.

McNamara said the girls were unaware they were being taped. Brabson appears in the tapes, but he was not present while the girls were undressing, McNamara said.

The school planned to report Brabson’s actions but had not before detectives arrived, MacLeon said.

No one answered the door at Brabson’s home, 6306 Eaglebrook Ave., Thursday afternoon. A phone call to his attorney was not returned.

Brabson is married, and his wife is pregnant with their second child, McNamara said.

The earliest incident on tape appears to be from three years ago and the most recent from October, McNamara said.

MacLeod said Tampa Prep offered counseling for the students taped by Brabson.

McNamara said when detectives interviewed girls and their families, their sense of betrayal was apparent.

“They had faith and trust in this man,” McNamara said. “A lot of people are very shocked right now, very alarmed, very angry.”