DUBLIN — As the child molestation trial for a former Bay Area firefighter, prosecutors are moving to introduce testimony by four women who have come forward with new allegations against the then-Livermore resident.
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Simon Meyer, 55, is facing charges of secretly recording two girls inside the bathroom of his Livermore home, and with molesting two others years earlier during pool parties and other events at his home. But the testimony from four other women — who say Meyer either pulled off clothing or inappropriately touched them — is sought by prosecutors to prove Meyer had a pattern of predatorial behavior.
Meyer faces no charges related to these new four alleged victims, two of whom say they were 18 when the incidents occurred. The other two claim they were 11 and 13. The incidents involved Meyer pulling off the girls’ clothing during a game of hide and seek around New Year’s Eve 2008, and inappropriately touching the two teens in separate, more recent incidents, according to court records.
Meyer, a Redding resident who used to live in Livermore, has pleaded not guilty. Jury selection in his trial is set to begin in coming days, and in the meantime he’s out of jail in lieu of $320,000 bail, records show.
The case against Meyer began in 2021, when he allegedly invited two neighborhood girls to his home to use the pool, and urged them to change in his bathroom. One of the girls discovered a smartphone was recording them changing, airdropped the video to herself as proof, then told her parents, who confronted Meyer that night and later told police, authorities said.
Since then, six more alleged victims have come forward, each alleging Meyer touched them inappropriately or attempted to look inside their clothing. One girl alleged that Meyer attempted to record her in the bathroom when she was 13, and inappropriately touched her twice, once during a sleepover when she was 10 and another time at a pool party three years later, records show.
Meyer was a firefighter in San Mateo County until 2021, when he no longer appears on public payrolls. It is unclear whether he was fired or resigned. In 2022, police in Redding listed him as a missing person and sought the public’s help in locating him, then rescinded the alert when he was found safe.
All of the alleged victims were either family friends or lived nearby, authorities said. One of the girls — whom Meyer allegedly inappropriately touched during a sleepover when she was in the fifth grade — told police that she initially convinced herself that what he had done must have been “medical” and due to his job, but later realized it wasn’t, according to prosecutors.
