GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A former Southwest High School guidance counselor is now charged in federal court with producing child pornography by allegedly recording images of three minors in a bathroom. And, court documents reveal at least seven current students are among the victims shown on more than 2,000 images and videos.
Todd Naze made an initial appearance Thursday in federal court. He returns to court Feb. 20 for a preliminary hearing. He was ordered held in jail, court records show.
Each of the six counts carries a term of 15-to-30 years in prison, if convicted.
Naze was previously charged in state court with more than a dozen counts of “capturing an intimate representation.” He returns to court Feb. 17 for an arraignment on those charges.
According to federal court documents, police have identified 30 people who have identified themselves on the images. Seventeen of them were minors at the time of the recording, including seven current students.
Police seized three flash drives from Naze’s bedroom. One contained 116 images of people in the bathroom. A second contained 347 videos, with 74 screen grabs of sexually explicit images. A third contained 1,952 videos of the bathroom area. The images were created in 2018 and 2019.
Naze admitted to placing a recording device in the bathroom, the complaint states.
