Wakefield High student charged with secretly recording teachers in classrooms

A Wakefield High School student is accused of turning classrooms into hidden-recording spaces, with Raleigh police and court records tying 18-year-old Jaden Isiah-Tyler Pompey to 14 felony secret-peeping counts and a separate misdemeanor at the North Raleigh campus.

The alleged incidents were linked to Feb. 16 and Feb. 27, when warrants say teachers were recorded without their knowledge while they were teaching. The camera was allegedly pointed upward toward private areas, a detail that turns the case from a basic discipline issue into a serious breach of classroom privacy and sexual safety. Court records also show a separate misdemeanor secret-peeping charge tied to a March 2 incident at Wakefield High School.

Pompey was taken into custody Monday and was being held without bond at the Wake County Jail. His first court appearance was scheduled for Tuesday afternoon. The charges make the case one of the more serious school-related privacy allegations in Wake County this year because it involves repeated misconduct, multiple alleged victims and conduct that unfolded inside classrooms where teachers are expected to work without being surveilled or sexually exploited.

Wake County Public Schools sent a message to Wakefield families Monday morning saying the district takes the safety of students and staff seriously, but that privacy laws limited what it could say publicly. The district said Pompey had been disciplined under Wake County Public Schools policy and was no longer enrolled at Wakefield High School. Wakefield serves grades 9 through 12 at 2200 Wakefield Pines Drive, and U.S. News lists the school with 2,105 students and a 19-to-1 student-teacher ratio.

The case also underscores how North Carolina law treats voyeuristic conduct in occupied rooms. Under state law, secretly peeping into a room occupied by another person is a Class 1 misdemeanor, but using a device to create a photographic image for sexual gratification while secretly peeping is a Class I felony. In Wakefield’s case, the allegations point to a school environment where a student is accused of converting ordinary classroom instruction into an opportunity for concealed recording, leaving teachers to absorb the consequences long after the alleged acts ended.