FORMER EMPLOYEE INDICTED FOR VOYEURISM INVOLVING A TEENAGE LIFEGUARD AT POOL IN HILLIARD

Posted on 1/8/2018

Defendant: Justin Francis Budding

Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said, “Not only did this man record a teenage lifeguard in a changing room at the pool, but he also had child pornography on his cell phone.”  Prosecutor Ron O’Brien announced that the Franklin County Grand Jury has returned an indictment against Justin Francis Budding, age 22, with four counts of Pandering Sexually-Oriented Matter Involving a Minor (F-2), four counts of Pandering Sexually-Oriented Matter Involving a Minor (F-4), and one count of Voyeurism (F-5),  for a total of nine counts.  Budding was an employee at Aquatic Adventures located at 3940 Lyman Drive in Hilliard.  “It is alleged that Budding had hidden a camera in the lifeguards' changing room of the business and he had taken a video of his co-worker in various states of nudity without her knowledge on December 10^th, 2017, which was also synced to his personal cell phone,” O’Brien stated.  Also found on his cell phone were images and videos of children in a state of nudity and/or engaging in sexual acts, which Budding obtained between August 18^th and December 14^th, 2017.  Budding is scheduled to be arraigned on Monday, January 22^nd at 1:30 pm in courtroom 2B at 345 S. High Street in downtown Columbus.