GREEN COVE SPRINGS, Fla. — A 44-year-old Clay High School custodian pleaded guilty to attempted production of child pornography after a miniature camera was found hidden last year in a girls' locker room at the Green Cove Springs campus, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
A sentencing date has not been set, but Jason Brian Goff of Starke faces 15 to 30 years in federal prison, prosecutors said.
On Aug. 22 of last year, two 14-year-old female students said they saw what looked like a camera in an empty, locked locker in their gym, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. When school administrators unlocked it, they found a cellphone taped to the inside wall with its lens pointed out of a pre-made hole aimed at a changing area.
A forensic analysis of the phone yielded a 30-minute video shot from a window looking into the locker room where female students were captured changing clothes. At the end of the video, Goff's identification badge could be seen, prosecutors said.
The cellphone also contained selfies of Goff and text messages from his telephone number, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. Review of other electronic devices belonging to Goff revealed more images from the girls’ locker room and a collection of child pornography that included a video and images of adults sexually abusing children, including infants.
Goff was arrested on Sept. 13, 2019, later admitting that he had tried filming girls in the locker room at least three times from different vantage points, the U.S. Attorney's Office said.
Goff, employed as a janitor since July 2018 at the Green Cove Springs school, was suspended after his arrest. He was initially hired in 2012 after an extensive background check required for all employees, district officials said.
