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Convicted Janitor Filmed High School Girls

Jacksonville, Florida – A shocking case of child exploitation has come to an end with the sentencing of Jason Brian Goff, a 45-year-old janitor, to 20 years in federal prison.

Goff, a custodian at Clay High School, was arrested on September 13, 2019 and charged with the attempted use of children to produce sexually explicit videos.

According to court documents, in August 2019, two 14-year-old students reported seeing what they believed was a camera lens concealed within a locked gym locker in the girls’ locker room. When school administrators opened the locker, they discovered a cellphone taped to the inside wall with the lens pointed out of a pre-fabricated hole.

A forensic analysis of the phone revealed a 30-minute video that had been filmed from a window looking into the locker room where female students were captured and recorded changing clothes. The video ended with the phone panned down to show the identification badge of Clay High School Custodian Jason Goff.

Goff later admitted that he had tried filming girls in the locker room at least three times, from different vantage points. Forensic analyses of other electronic devices belonging to Goff revealed additional images from the girls’ high school locker room and a collection of child exploitation materials, including a video and images of adults sexually abusing children of various ages, including images of infants.

U.S. District Judge Brian J. Davis sentenced Goff to 20 years in federal prison, followed by a 10-year term of supervised release, and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

‘It is beyond reprehensible that this predator used his position of trust as a school employee to sexually exploit children,’ said HSI Jacksonville Assistant Special Agent in Charge K. Jim Phillips. ‘Thanks to HSI special agents and the Clay County Sheriff’s Office, he will be held accountable for his crimes.’

This case was investigated by the Clay County Sheriff’s Office and Homeland Security Investigations, with the full cooperation of the Clay County School Board and Clay High Administrators. It was prosecuted by Assistant United States Attorney Kelly S. Karase.

Goff pleaded guilty on September 25, 2020.