The Edmonson County High School teacher arrested on Wednesday has been federally charged with attempted production of child pornography and attempted online enticement, United States Attorney Russell Coleman announced on Thursday.
William Oneal “Will” Lindsey, 28, of Brownsville, was charged on January 13, by criminal complaint, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Western District of Kentucky.
According to the criminal complaint, on January 7, 2021, Lindsey began an online conversation that was sexual in nature with what he believed to be a minor, officials said. In fact, Lindsey was talking with an undercover officer with the Kentucky Office of the Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations (DCI).
After several days of conversations, Lindsey was taken into custody at his place of employment, Edmonson County High School, without incident. According to the complaint, Lindsey waived his Miranda rights, and agreed to be interviewed.
“During the interview, he admitted the person he met online he knew to be a minor and that the conversation was sexual in nature and he asked for images,” Coleman said. “He offered that he should not have engaged in the behavior because of the age of the person he was talking to, and went on to say that he had communicated with numerous other girls on various platforms concerning sexually explicit topics and that he believed many of them were minors.”
The maximum penalty for attempted enticement is no less than 10 years and no more than life while attempted production carries a sentence of no less than 15 years, and no more than life.
Both counts carry a fine of $250,000.
Lindsey was the JAG coordinator at Edmonson County High School, according to the school’s website, but has since been terminated. JAG is a “school to work transition program designed to keep students in school through graduation and help them transition into the workplace in quality jobs,” according to the national JAG website.
By Ken Howlett, News Director
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