SANTA CRUZ >> Isaac Lynn, the brother of accused child molester Rashel Brandon, said he found a GoPro camera that has become a central piece of evidence in his sister’s case.

Brandon, a Watsonville resident, is accused of committing lewd and lascivious acts — among a list of other charges — in a child-porn ring with Santa Cruz brain surgeon James Kohut and a Tucson, Arizona, woman.

Lynn, a San Jose resident and former Marine, said when he found the video, he turned it in immediately on July 30. He could not bear to watch it, he said, and he does not know what it contains. But according to court documents, the video was filmed in Watsonville between Jan. 1 and May 9, and shows defendants raping a 3-year-old and 10-year-old boy multiple times.

It is not clear in the documents which defendants — Kohut, Brandon or the Arizona woman Emily Stephens — are shown raping children in the video.

Assistant District Attorney Steve Moore declined to comment on the case.

Lynn said he found the device in belongings the family transferred to his San Jose home from his 43-year-old sister’s Watsonville home.

Lynn said he was surprised authorities did not find the camera after they searched his sister’s home multiple times.

“With her being incarcerated and her pending divorce, she was in fear all of her stuff would be thrown out in the street or trashed,” Lynn said. “She asked us to help get her clothes and she asked if we come across a GoPro to turn it in.”

Kohut, 57, is accused of luring multiple women online simultaneously with goals to impregnate them and have sex with the children in “taboo families,” according to court documents. Kohut, who initially faced 11 charges, now faces 48 felonies since the evidence was introduced and the defendants were arraigned in September.

Kohut, who worked at Dominican Hospital and was fired from Palo Alto Medical Foundation, is accused of molestation in 2003, 2014, 2016 and 2017, according to court documents.

Stephens, 30, of Tucson faces 45 felonies and Brandon faces 44 felonies linked with molestation.

The FBI helped with Watsonville Police Department’s investigation, but the federal agency does not comment on ongoing investigations, FBI spokeswoman Katherine Zackel told the Sentinel on Friday.

Kohut lived with his wife and children in Soquel and Santa Cruz for 13 years before his arrest on May 14, according to court documents. Kohut continued to take surgical on-call shifts at Dominican Hospital from January to March 2017 after he had accepted a job in Arkansas.

Early in the case, Moore alleged in court documents that Kohut had a history of sexual deviancy spanning two decades. The broad allegations in those documents accused Kohut of luring women from California, Louisiana, Nevada, Ohio, Vermont and Australia with intentions to molest their children in Santa Cruz County and the foothills of the Sierra Nevada.

Seven children, ages 3 to 13, were taken into protective custody early in the case, according to court documents.

Superior Court Judge John Salazar in September increased each defendant’s bail to $15 million. The defendants were at Santa Cruz County Jail on Friday.

The cases, scheduled to be heard together, are set for a preliminary hearing 9 a.m. March 12 in Santa Cruz County Superior Court.