Guilty! Timothy Going, Fairfield, Illinois (arrested May 2014) [video voyeurism]

United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Illinois
Former Fairfield Community High School Coach Charged With Attempted Sexual Exploitation Of Minors And Possession Of Visual Depictions Of Minors Engaged In Sexually Explicit Conduct
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2014
Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 28, 2014, Timothy C. Going, 43, formerly of Fairfield, IL, where he worked as the coach for the cross country team, the assistant coach for the track team, and a math teacher at Fairfield Community High School, was arraigned on a four-count Indictment charging him, in Counts 1 through 3, with the Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor or Minors, and, in Count 4, with Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct. A detention hearing has been scheduled for August 5, 2014, to determine whether or not Going should be held without bond pending trial.

Counts 1 through 3 of the Indictment allege that between August 24, 2012, and August 25, 2012, and between October 26, 2012, and October 27, 2012, and between November 1, 2013, and November 2, 2013, Going attempted to sexually exploit minors by using these minors in an attempt to produce child pornography. Count 4 alleges that, on May 9, 2014, Going knowingly possessed a desktop computer and a laptop computer, both of which contained visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Trial is scheduled for September 30, 2014. The penalties for each count of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor or Minors are a term in prison of not less than fifteen years, but not more than thirty years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life. The penalties for the offense of Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct are a term in prison of not more than ten years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life.

An indictment is merely the method by which federal charges are lodged. A defendant is presumed innocent of the charges until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."

The case was investigated by the Illinois State Police, the Fairview Heights Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Springfield Child Exploitation Task Force. The case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.

www.justice.gov/usao/ils/News/2014/Jul/07282014_Going%20Press%20Release.html

 

WSIL 3 ABC TV St. Louis
Fairfield Teacher Arrested for Videotaping Girls
By WSIL Manager
May 10, 2014, Story Updated: May 11, 2014 at 5:10 AM CDT
FAIRFIELD -- A Fairfield high school teacher has been arrested and suspended from teaching after being accused of secretly videotaping female students.
www.wsiltv.com/home/top-story/Fairfield-Teacher-Arrested-for-Videotaping-Girls-258776451.html

 

WSIL 3 ABC TV St. Louis
Fairfield Teacher Charged With Videotaping Female Students
By Matthew Searcy & Randy Livingston
May 12, 2014, Updated: May 12, 2014 at 7:18 PM CDT
[Embedded Video]
FAIRFIELD -- A Fairfield high school teacher is now facing formal charges for videotaping teenage girls.
Math teacher and track coach Timothy Going was arrested Friday.
www.wsiltv.com/home/top-story/Fairfield-Teacher-Charged-With-Videotaping-Female-Students--258976281.html

 

Fox 2 St. Louis
Track coach charged with videotaping girls in locker room
June 10, 2014, Updated at 10:14pm, June 10, 2014
by Chris Smith
A Metro East teacher is behind bars accused of being a Peeping Tom. Timothy C. Going, 43, allegedly videotaped students in the girls’ locker room of Fairfield Community High School in Wayne County, IL.
http://fox2now.com/2014/06/10/track-coach-charged-with-videotaping-girls-in-locker-room

 

WSIL 3 ABC TV
Fairfield Teacher Faces More Videotaping Charges
By Associated Press
Jun 11, 2014 at 11:17 AM CDT, Updated: Jun 11, 2014 at 11:18 AM CDT
BELLEVILLE, IL (AP) - A southern Illinois math teacher accused of videotaping girls in a high school locker room now is charged with illegally videotaping girls in a motel bathroom.
www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Fairfield-Teacher-Faces-More-Videotaping-Charges-262722711.html

 

KMOV 4 St. Louis
Police: Ill. coach arrested after recording locker room, motel
by KMOV.com staff
June 11, 2014 at 9:09 AM Wednesday, updated 5:41 PM
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A Fairfield, Ill. man is facing criminal charges after police said he secretly recorded video inside the girls’ locker room at Fairfield Community High School, where he was a teacher and coach.
www.kmov.com/news/Track-coach-arrested-after-illegally-video-taping-locker-room-motel-police-say-262702621.html

 

DisclosureNewsOnline
By Jack Howser
June 11, 2014 Wed 11:14AM
Local Guy Hemmed Up in Metro East Unauthorized Videotaping
www.disclosurenewsonline.com/2014/06/11/local-guy-hemmed-up-in-metro-east-unauthorized-videotaping/#sthash.L4VPMCRq.qz7fRTE8.dpbs

 

WSIL 3 ABC TV
Fairfield Teacher Facing Federal Charges
By WSIL Manager
Jul 2, 2014 at 2:59 PM CDT, Story Updated: Jul 2, 2014 at 2:59 PM CDT
WSIL -- A Wayne County high school teacher accused of secretly videotaping girls now faces federal charges.
www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Fairfield-Teacher-Facing-Federal-Charges-265588211.html

 

KMOV 4 St. Louis
Police: Ill. coach facing federal charges after recording locker room, motel
by KMOV.com staff
July 4, 2014 at 6:14 PM
ST. LOUIS, Mo. – A Fairfield, Ill. man is facing criminal charges after police said he secretly recorded video inside the girls’ locker room at Fairfield Community High School, where he was a teacher and coach.
Police said Timothy Going, 43, also recorded video on November 1, 2013 at a Super 8 Motel in Fairview Heights, Ill.
www.kmov.com/news/crime/Police-Ill-coach-facing-federal-charges-after-recording-locker-room-motel-265857471.html

 

United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Illinois
Former Fairfield Community High School Coach Charged With Attempted Sexual Exploitation Of Minors And Possession Of Visual Depictions Of Minors Engaged In Sexually Explicit Conduct
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
July 28, 2014

Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on July 28, 2014, Timothy C. Going, 43, formerly of Fairfield, IL, where he worked as the coach for the cross country team, the assistant coach for the track team, and a math teacher at Fairfield Community High School, was arraigned on a four-count Indictment charging him, in Counts 1 through 3, with the Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor or Minors, and, in Count 4, with Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct. A detention hearing has been scheduled for August 5, 2014, to determine whether or not Going should be held without bond pending trial.

Counts 1 through 3 of the Indictment allege that between August 24, 2012, and August 25, 2012, and between October 26, 2012, and October 27, 2012, and between November 1, 2013, and November 2, 2013, Going attempted to sexually exploit minors by using these minors in an attempt to produce child pornography. Count 4 alleges that, on May 9, 2014, Going knowingly possessed a desktop computer and a laptop computer, both of which contained visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct.

Trial is scheduled for September 30, 2014. The penalties for each count of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor or Minors are a term in prison of not less than fifteen years, but not more than thirty years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life. The penalties for the offense of Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct are a term in prison of not more than ten years, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life.

An indictment is merely the method by which federal charges are lodged. A defendant is presumed innocent of the charges until proven guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.

This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse. Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc. For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."

The case was investigated by the Illinois State Police, the Fairview Heights Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Springfield Child Exploitation Task Force. The case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.

www.justice.gov/usao/ils/News/2014/Jul/07282014_Going%20Press%20Release.html

 

WFIW / WOKZ News Talk 1390 AM, Adult Hits 104.9 FM, Real Country 105.9 FM
Headlines for Thursday,September 18, 2014
Under a plea agreement reached Wednesday between federal prosecutors and Timothy C. Going, the former Fairfield Community High School teacher and coach will serve 20 years in prison for secretly videotaping FCHS female students in the girls’ locker room and FCHS female athletes at two different motels in the Metro-East St. Louis area.
www.wfiwradio.com/headlines-for-wednesday-september-18-2014

14 News NBC
Former Fairfield, IL teacher pleads guilty to sex offenses involving minors
Sep 17, 2014 4:33 PM CST Updated: Sep 17, 2014 4:33 PM CST
Posted by Audra Levy, Digital Content Director
Timothy Going pleads guilty in federal court to sex offenses involving minors.
www.14news.com/story/26560326/former-fairfield-il-teacher-pleads-guilty-to-sex-offenses-involving-minors

Northwest Herald
Former Illinois teacher, coach admits to sexual misconduct with girls
Sept. 17, 2014 5:35 p.m. CDT Wednesday,
By AP
EAST ST. LOUIS, Ill. (AP) — A former southern Illinois math teacher and cross country coach pleaded guilty Wednesday to federal charges involving sexual misconduct with girls.
http://nwherald.com/2014/09/17/form...dmits-to-sexual-misconduct-with-girls/adyimvu

WSIL Channel 3 ABC
Going Pleads Guilty to Federal Charges
By WSIL Manager
Sep 17, 2014 at 5:04 PM CDT
WSIL –
A former Wayne County high school teacher has pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping girls.
www.wsiltv.com/news/local/Going-Pleads-Guilty-to-Federal-Charges-275517521.html

WFIW / WOKZ News Talk 1390 AM, Adult Hits 104.9 FM, Real Country 105.9 FM
Headlines for Monday, September 15, 2014
Former Fairfield Community High School teacher and cross-country coach Timothy C. Going is expected to plead guilty this week to charges he secretly videotaped FCHS female athletes at a Metro-East hotel where they were staying in advance of an athletic event.
www.wfiwradio.com/headlines-for-monday-september-15-2014

WFIW / WOKZ News Talk 1390 AM, Adult Hits 104.9 FM, Real Country 105.9 FM
Headlines for Wednesday, August 6, 2014
Former Fairfield Community High School math teacher and cross country coach, Timothy C. Going is scheduled to appear in Federal Court this morning for a bail hearing.
www.wfiwradio.com/headlines-for-wednesday-august-6-2014

 

United States Department of Justice
United States Attorney’s Office
Southern District of Illinois
Press Release
Former Fairfield Community High School Cross Country Team Coach Pleads Guilty To Sex Offenses Involving Minors
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
September 17, 2014
Stephen R. Wigginton, United States Attorney for the Southern District of Illinois, announced today that on September 17, 2014, Timothy C. Going, 43, formerly of Fairfield, IL, where he worked as the coach for the cross country team, the assistant coach for the track team, and a math teacher at Fairfield Community High School, pled guilty to a four-count Indictment charging him, in Counts 1 through 3, with the Attempted Sexual Exploitation of Minors and, in Count 4, with Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct.
For the three counts of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of Minors, Going faces a term of not less than fifteen years but not more than thirty years in federal prison, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life for each count.
For the offense of Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, Going faces a term of not more than ten years in federal prison, a fine up to $250,000, and a term of supervised release of not less than five years to life.
Going’s sentencing is scheduled for January 5, 2015, in East St. Louis, Illinois. Going has been held without bond since his arraignment on July 21, 2014.
Court documents revealed that Going’s criminal activities began on May 5, 2014, when a hidden video camera was discovered above a bathroom stall in the girls’ locker room at Fairfield Community High School. The video camera was wired to a black box with an antennae attached to it and a SD card slot in it.
The next day, an Illinois State Police (ISP) crime scene investigator collected the camera and black box as evidence and transported them to the ISP’s forensics crime lab in Springfield, Illinois.
An ISP Forensic Technician began a forensic examination of the SanDisk micro SD card (SD card) removed from the black box that was wired to the hidden video camera and discovered several video clips from May 5, 2014, which depicted teenage girls using the bathroom stall or standing or walking next to the bathroom stall in the girls’ locker room in various stages of undress.
There were other video clips that had been deleted that showed that the camera had been hidden in different locations in the girls’ locker room, including the changing area, before being placed above the bathroom stall.
The SD card also contained a video clip from May 2, 2014, which captured the placement of the hidden camera in the location in which it was found, by a white male wearing shorts and white ankle socks at approximately 10:28 p.m. that night. A review of the school’s surveillance video showed Going entering the school near that time wearing black shorts, a black hoodie, a gray stocking cap, tennis shoes, and white ankle socks.
The school’s surveillance system captured Going later going into the dark gym area, and, at approximately 10:28 p.m., leaving the gym area wearing his white ankle socks and carrying his shoes.
The surveillance camera then showed Going exit the school, sit on the stairs to put on his shoes, walk to his truck and drive away.
Additional images recovered from the SD card showed images of members of the girls’ cross country team in various stages of undress as they prepared to and/or finished showering in what appeared to be different hotel bathrooms.
Illinois State Police Special Agents spoke with the administration at Fairfield Community High School and learned that Going had taken the cross country team on two overnight trips in 2012 and one overnight trip in 2013 to attend track meets and two regional competitions at Southern Illinois University in Edwardsville, Illinois.
Going drove the bus that carried both the cross country team to the meet and regional competitions.
Members of the girls’ 2012 and 2013 cross country teams were interviewed regarding these overnight trips.
The interviews revealed that Going had the same routine when he arrived at and left the motel with the cross country team.
He would either have the team wait on the bus or in the lobby while he checked them in and took the keys from the hotel clerk.
He would then tell the kids to wait so he could check the rooms for any “damage” so that the damage would not be attributed to the students occupying the room, and subsequently charged to the school.
After he returned, he would assign rooms to the girls and the boys, and give them the keys to their rooms.
Likewise, before checking out of the motel the next day, Going would again have the team either wait in the lobby or on the bus while he would take their keys and tell them that he was going to check the rooms for any “damage” and to make sure all personal belongings had been removed.
He would then turn the keys into the motel clerk and they would leave.
It was at these times that Going installed and removed the hidden video camera from the bathroom of rooms he specifically assigned to members of the girls’ cross country team.
On May 9, 2014, Going was arrested and charged by the Wayne County State’s Attorney with unauthorized videotaping of students as well as burglary to the school.
That same day, a state search warrant was executed at Going’s residence and numerous electronic media devices were seized.
These electronic media devices, including, but not limited to, a MSI Generic desktop computer, a HP Pavilion laptop computer, were also submitted to the ISP’s forensics crime lab for forensic examination.
During the forensic examinations of the MSI Generic desktop computer and the HP Pavilion laptop computer, a large number of visual depictions of minors engaged in sexually explicit conduct were found.
The majority of the images had been downloaded via the internet, and depicted sexual interactions between minors and adults, as well as sexual interactions between minors, and the lascivious display of the genitals of minors.
This case was brought as part of Project Safe Childhood, a nationwide initiative launched in 2006 by the Department of Justice to combat the growing epidemic of child sexual exploitation and abuse.
Led by the United States Attorneys' Offices and the Criminal Division's Child Exploitation and Obscenity Section, Project Safe Childhood marshals federal, state, and local resources to locate, apprehend, and prosecute individuals who sexually exploit children, and to identify and rescue victims. For more information about Project Safe Childhood, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc.
For more information about internet safety education, please visit www.usdoj.gov/psc and click on the tab "resources."
The case was investigated by the Illinois State Police, the Fairview Heights Police Department, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation's Springfield Child Exploitation Task Force.
The case is assigned to Assistant United States Attorney Angela Scott.
www.justice.gov/usao/ils/News/2014/Sep/09172014_Going%20Press%20Release.html

 

Thanks for the updates!

 

Family Taxpayers Foundation
Teacher and Administrator Salary Database
Fiscal Year 2012 (School Year Fall 2011 - Spring 2012)
Name: Going, Timothy
Salary: $42,705
Position: High School Teacher
Full/Part Time: Fulltime
Percent Time Employed: 100%
Assignment: Geometry (Grades 9-12 Only)
Years Teaching: 1
Degree: Baccalaureate
School Name: Fairfield Comm High School
District Name: Fairfield Comm H S Dist 225
www.familytaxpayers.org/salary.php

Illinois State Board of Education (ISBE)
Educator Licensure Information System (ELIS)
Public Search
Timothy Going
Professional Educator License (PEL) ID 1950090 is active.
www.isbe.net/elis
Thus his teaching license has not yet been revoked by the ISBE.

 

Timothy C Going is in the Federal Bureau of Prisons Inmate Locator system as an inmate with an estimated release date of 2031.
www.bop.gov/inmateloc

 

Thanks for the updates!