GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) – A former high school guidance counselor who secretly taped students and staff using a school bathroom was sentenced Tuesday to 12 years in prison.
Todd Naze, 55, also faces an additional sentence of at least 15 years in prison when he is sentenced Thursday in federal court.
Naze was convicted in state court of 12 counts of “capturing an intimate representation.” He was also placed on extended supervision for 12 years after the prison term.
Naze will not have to register for the sex offender registry, as Judge Marc Hammer called it an invasion of privacy case.
Multiple victims addressed the court before sentencing.
Naze had the opportunity to speak as well.
“I never did intend to hurt you but now I realize that I hurt you beyond what words can fully describe. I pray for and wish that you are able to heal, and that your pain and suffering decreases. And that eventually in time, God, and you, will be able to forgive me. I am sorry that what I have done has impacted so many lives.”
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 was convicted for the same recordings in federal court for incidents involving capturing the images of underage students.
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