WAYNE CO./U.S. DISTRICT COURT, EAST ST. LOUIS—The Fairfield Community High School coach and math instructor has been indicted by the feds on charges related to videotapes seized following his arrest two months ago on local videotaping counts.
Timothy Going
And the things that were found during this seizure, say the feds, are pretty graphic.
According to court documents filed Friday, June 27, Timothy C. Going, former math instructor and track coach at Fairfield, has not only allegedly been caught on school surveillance tapes in the act of installing video cameras that contained at least one video of a nude female minor showering, but has been found to be in possession of other, more salacious pornographic material.
The first count in the federal case is that of Attempted Sexual Exploitation of a Minor, in which it’s alleged that between/on or about November 1-2, 2013, Going used and attempted to use a minor to engage in sexually explicit conduct for the purpose of producing a video. This pertains to the St. Clair County bust we covered at this link here.
The second count is Possession of Visual Depictions of Minors Engaged in Sexually Explicit Conduct, which has the long, involved affidavit signed by federal investigator Joseph Murphy, who has been featured in our reports before as he specializes in these kinds of alleged child sex crimes.
In this affidavit, Murphy outlined how during that November period, Going took a small group of track participants and another adult to a Fairview Heights motel to stay while they were involved in the meet. He explained how Going “checked the rooms of the motel for any damage and to make sure no personal belongings were left in the rooms” from previous occupants…but what he was allegedly really doing was installing a video camera in the restroom to tape the young girl. This, Murphy said, was accomplished by a camera device installed in the bathroom that looked like a smoke detector; followups showed that the bathroom didn’t have a smoke detector in it. This device came on when the door closed. Going, authorities alleged, was able to video the minor undressing and taking a shower.
But the material purportedly found on Going’s home computers was at least every bit as damaging as all of the above: allegedly, images obtained from his devices, most of these devices homemade (Going was supposedly “very good at computers and electronics,” according to court documents), were depictions in the form of videos “involving some prepubescent females (12 or younger) and some of whom appeared to be a little older. Many of the images were obtained from websites that apparently distribute child pornography, and depicted sexual interactions between minors and adults, as well as sexual interactions between minors, and the lascivious display of the minors’ genitals.”
Murphy said these alleged child porn images were “mixed in with legal images which would indicate that (Going) knew what the image was when he saved it. In addition, the fact that Going tried to delete the images after the video camera evidences his consciousness of guilt. He knew that these images were of minors engaging in sexually explicit conduct and wanted to get rid of them before his computers were searched.”
Going has been held in Wayne County since his early May arrest and is to be brought to the federal courthouse on July 21 to make a first appearance. He’s been unable to post bond on the Wayne County charges; it’s unclear what’s going to become of those, but it’s highly likely that local do-nothing prosecutor David Williams will probably go the Mike Wepsiec route that Jackson County did to Raymond Martin four years ago, and drop them because the feds picked them up. While this saves Wayne County taxpayers a bundle of money, it speaks toward the type of “justice” to be found in that place, despite the redundancy. At the very least, a conviction in both federal and state court venues might serve to keep Going behind bars longer than he’s going to be, if indeed he’s convicted.
More on it as we get it.