GIG HARBOR, Wash. — A sex offender convicted in a previous voyeurism case was sentenced to over four years in prison on Thursday afternoon after he was caught filming teen girls at a Gig Harbor high school in September, according to court documents.
Adam Nicholas Randolph, 36, was sentenced to 50 months in prison followed by 60 months of community supervision. Randolph pleaded guilty to three counts of first-degree voyeurism for an incident at Peninsula High School on Sept. 12.
“All of us that have any relationship with children, will know, the damage probably can’t be undone," said Garold Johnson, Pierce County Superior Court judge. "What we can do is do everything we can to let the victims know we care. And we certainly do.”
According to court documents, two female students on the Peninsula High School junior varsity team were changing in the restroom prior to a game when they noticed an Android-style cellphone come over the top of the stall door. The girls told authorities they believed the phone was recording them while changing.
Two soccer players followed Randolph out of the restroom and into the parking lot, where he drove off, according to court documents. Randolph was captured on surveillance footage entering the senior parking lot just after 3:30 p.m. and leaving the restroom around 3:40 p.m., according to court documents. Officials reviewing surveillance video from the incident estimated that 11 girls entered the restroom between the time Randolph entered and exited.
Mary Lee Smith, a parent of a teenager at Peninsula High School, said she is grateful the case was resolved.
“I’m grateful it’s over with, that he is incarcerated," Smith said. "I just feel bad for the kids, feel bad that they were impacted in a negative way.”
After the incident, the Pierce County Sheriff's Department received multiple tips indicating Randolph was a potential suspect. A detective drove by Randolph's home a week after the incident and noticed a Chevy sedan that matched the vehicle in the school surveillance video.
Detectives said Randoph's wife confirmed her husband was the person in the surveillance photos. She also identified the vehicle in the Peninsula High School footage as belonging to her, police said. Randolph was arrested on Sept. 28.
“My daughter and I both are Christians – so we chose to forgive him," Smith said. "It doesn’t mean we don’t have our feelings about the situation but that being said he’s had his time in court and God will deal with him in the end.”
The 36-year-old was convicted in another voyeurism case in Pierce County in 2017. Randolph also had a misdemeanor for third-degree sexual abuse in Jackson County, Michigan on his record.
Over a period of several months, Randolph had repeatedly entered women's bathrooms at the University of Puget Sound and taken photos of women in the stalls.
According to court documents, Randolph used a cellphone to record women in bathroom stalls at the University of Puget Sound between November 2016 and February 2017. A student reported seeing a suspicious person in the women’s restroom and reported it to campus security. The school worked with the Tacoma Police Department to identify the suspect as Randolph.
At least two of his alleged victims expressed concerns about the university's handling of the case.
“I just feel like my sense of security was taken away,” Carter Peckham said in 2017. “As I understand it, he recorded me in a stall from underneath and over the top.”
Peckham said she had to identify herself after police showed her a still photo of herself in the stall. Court documents said the camera was repositioned to view her at the sink washing her hands.
“You expect to be safe in your workplace and your school," Peckham said in 2017. "I would want that for anyone to not have to think twice about whether or not they’re being watched."
Randolph pleaded not guilty in 2017 to seven counts of voyeurism and three counts of attempted voyeurism in Pierce County Court.
Randolph is a level three sex offender, a classification given to offenders that pose the highest risk to the community and are a threat to re-offend.