Two individuals entered guilty pleas in Alexander County cases. One of the defendants received a minimum of six years in prison, the other was given a suspended
Man accused of secret peeping facing more charges involving student in Alexander Co.
Peeping suspect accused of recording student By WBTV Web Staff | March 8, 2021 at 4:51 PM EST - Updated March 8 at 6:59 PM
TAYLORSVILLE, N.C. (WBTV) - A man already in jail after being charged with more than 50 counts of secret peeping and nine counts of indecent liberties stemming from three years of videos taken in Alexander County is now facing more charges.
Alexander County Sheriff’s Office and Taylorsville Police Department officers arrested 32-year-old Michael Justin Childers at his home at 4 p.m. on Thursday, March 4.
The arrest stems from an ongoing investigation beginning in Dec. 2020 that initiated from Wittenburg Elementary School in Alexander County.
More information has been released in the case involving an Alexander County man who faces more than 100 charges. As reported previously on WHKY, 32-year-old Mi
By Bill Galluccio
Mar 5, 2021
Michael Justin Childers, 32, in December 2020, after a hidden camera was found in a faculty bathroom at Wittenburg Elementary School, where he worked as a janitor.
During the investigation, authorities found thousands of videos taken between 2016-2019 when Childers worked at a Walmart in Taylorsville. While some of the videos included children as young as ten-years-old, none of them were recorded at the school. We re still looking into how he was doing it, but he was definitely getting some kind of device close enough underneath the woman and children s skirts to show underneath the skirt, Taylorsville Police Chief