GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A former high school guidance counselor pleaded not guilty Thursday to federal charges of making child pornography by recording students in a bathroom.
Todd Naze is scheduled to stand trial April 27 on eight counts. A three-day trial is planned, court records show.
While Naze was originally charged with six counts of production of child pornography involving three victims, prosecutors added two more counts regarding a fourth victim.
Naze also faces more than a dozen similar charges in state court.
In both the federal and state cases, prosecutors allege he set up an iPod in a bathroom at Southwest High School and used it record females using it.
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.
The federal criminal charges are for recordings made Dec. 17, 2017, Sept. 14, 2018, Sept. 25, 2018, and Oct. 30, 2018. The ages of the four victims are not listed, but states the images are of minors.
