ST. CLAIR CO., Ill.—Another unauthorized videotaping charge might ensure that if found guilty, something will actually be done with Timothy Going.
Timothy Going. Did we mention he’s also a Logistics Officer with the Illinois National Guard?
Because if the case in Wayne County were to remain the only one filed, it’s highly likely Going, a former math instructor and coach at Fairfield Community High School, would end up with a slap on the wrist.
But as it stands now, it’s been reported that St. Clair County officials have filed the same charges against Going in their county following discovery of an incident last November in Fairview Heights, only in increased numbers: A Class 3 felony count of Unauthorized Videotaping of a person under the age of 18; a Class 3 felony county of Placing a Video Device to tape a person under the age of 18; a Class 4 felony count of Unauthorized Videotaping of an adult; and a misdemeanor count of Placing a Videotaping Device in a Public Place, this all after allegedly recording women and girls at a Super 8 Motel in Fairview Heights who were there at a track meet last November. Going is accused of placing a videotaping device on the floor of a bathroom in order to obtain videos of the females in attendance, ages 15, 16 and 18.
Fairview Heights officials told Disclosure this morning that the lead came to them after investigators in the Wayne County case derived information from Going as to other activities he’d been up to that were similar to what he was busted for in Wayne back in May.
They’re a fairly astute bunch out there in the Metro-East, and as far as we know, not given to the proclivities that those in Wayne County have: Prosecutor David Williams, due to having a distinct and publicly-known drinking problem, usually does the absolute least he can do in very serious cases like this one; and it doesn’t appear he’s called in a special prosecutor like he did for the Haven Kirkpatrick case (wherein he claimed a “conflict” because his wife worked for the school district.) So the way the case will go in Wayne is anyone’s guess.
Whether that will be the case in St. Clair is also up in the air; Disclosure has learned that the matter is a “joint investigation” between Fairview Heights and ISP. However, upon speaking to the Fairview Heights authorities this morning, Disclosure asked if they were aware that their “lead investigator” in the Going case, whom it was confirmed was Rick White, is under investigation for perjury in Richland County and is having multiple problems in other counties in the area (specifically White County, where White’s testimony has cost them two sex-based cases so far, those ending in mistrial.) Authorities said they weren’t aware of that.
This wouldn’t be the first time someone from the eastern side of the state has screwed up investigations/criminal charges on the western side, however.
A 2004 case involving the airport authority in Bethalto, Illinois, was decimated by none other than David “Rollover” Rands a couple of years later when Rands was brought in as special prosecutor for the case (which involved hundreds of thousands of dollars being filched from the airport authority), and subsequently let the culprits off with nothing resembling justice. The Bethalto police chief was quoted as saying he was “disgusted” with Rands’ actions; we’d give a link, but all that material has been scrubbed from the web. Nevertheless, it happened. And all because of unchecked corruption emanating from southeastern Illinois, where everyone in southwestern Illinois (Metro-East) seems to feel we’re just a bunch of uneducated dweebs and thus they don’t pay attention when we tell them about the idiot public officials we send their way…like David Rands and Rick White.
Whether they’ll listen now remains to be seen.
It’s unknown when Going is next in court in Wayne; online documents don’t show anything happening beyond Monday. The same is true for St. Clair County; we’re waiting on a call back from Julie Elliott, Chief of Children’s Justice Division in that office.
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