GREEN BAY, WI (WTAQ-WLUK) — A former high school guidance counselor who secretly taped students and staff while they used a faculty bathroom was sentenced Thursday to 15 years in federal prison.
Todd Naze, 55, was sentenced earlier this week to 12 years in state prison for charges from the same recordings — but U.S. Judge William Griesbach said Thursday the state sentence could be served at the same time as the federal term.
The federal conviction was for two counts of producing child pornography because of the age of some victims, and carried a minimum of 15 years in prison. Naze does not need to register as a sex offender with the state, but does have to with federal authorities.
Griesbach gave Naze credit for the time already served while awaiting sentencing, and imposed a 10-year supervision term after the prison sentence.
As he did Tuesday, Naze apologized to the victims, his colleagues, the school district, and the community.
Griesbach called Naze’s actions a “betrayal” to those who trusted him.
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.
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.
The state convictions were on counts of “capturing an intimate representation.”
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