Former Cameron High School Teacher Sentenced for Using Hidden Camera to Produce Child Porn

A former teacher from Cameron, Missouri will spend the next two decades behind bars for secretly recording three teenagers using the bathroom in his home. The recordings went on for more than a half decade. 40-year-old William Derek Williams pleaded guilty over the summer to producing child porn.

Williams will also have to serve 10 years of supervised release following his incarceration.

Williams was a high school language arts teacher and high school multimedia teacher.

The former teacher admitted filming his victims from January 2013 to September 2018 while they were in the basement bathroom of his home.

Williams was busted when one of the victims, who was 15-years-old at the time, discovered a hidden camera, designed to look like a cell phone charger plug, on Sept. 6, 2018. The victim opened the device and pulled out a micro SD card, which he inserted into his cell phone in order to look at its contents. The card included a secretly-recorded video of the victim.

The child victim turned the device over to investigators. On Sept. 8, 2018, investigators with the Clinton County Sheriff’s Department executed a search warrant at Williams’s home and confiscated a laptop and an SD card. Each of those devices contained pornographic videos of two more teenage victims who were secretly recorded in the basement bathroom. The laptop contained five distinct videos produced on five different days of a then-16-year-old victim. The laptop and the SD card contained several pornographic videos of a third victim who was then between 14 and 16 years old.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney David Luna. It was investigated by Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s (ICE) Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) and the Clinton County, Mo., Sheriff’s Department.