{"id":265751,"date":"2025-09-30T05:54:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:54:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265751\/"},"modified":"2025-09-30T05:54:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-30T05:54:12","slug":"convicted-phoenix-child-sex-predator-to-spend-663-years-in-prison","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/265751\/","title":{"rendered":"Convicted Phoenix child sex predator to spend 663 years in prison"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\"><b>PHOENIX (AZFamily)<\/b> \u2014 A Phoenix man who was recently convicted of sexually abusing at least two teen girls learned last week he\u2019ll spend the rest of his life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Gordon Golding, 59, was sentenced to 663 years in prison on Friday.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"figure-img img-fluid mx-auto d-block\" alt=\"Gordon Golding, 59, was sentenced to 663 years in prison on Friday.\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/J3GGQTXPBFC6DPF3L62RMHVELE.png\" width=\"980\" height=\"551\" \/>Gordon Golding, 59, was sentenced to 663 years in prison on Friday.(Maricopa County Sheriff&#8217;s Office)<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He was arrested back in 2019 on more than 40 counts, including sexual abuse, kidnapping and sexual exploitation of at least two 13-year-old girls. Investigators said he met them on Instagram, got them high or drunk and then sexually assaulted them. He recorded it all on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">A father of one of the victims said she told him she was raped several times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Golding was working at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.paradisevalley.edu\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.paradisevalley.edu\/\">Paradise Valley Community College<\/a> in their fitness center. He was immediately fired after his arrest.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Golding then fled to California after being charged. The U.S. Marshals later arrested him in November 2021 in Lake Tahoe, California.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">A Phoenix jury found him guilty on dozens of felony charges, including sexual conduct with a minor, sexual abuse and giving drugs to minors. Since the prison terms must be served consecutively, he got anywhere between one and 20 years for each count, adding up to 663 years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">He was credited with just over four years of time served.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">See a spelling or grammatical error in our story? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/page\/send-us-your-feedback\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Please click here to report it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Do you have a photo or video of a breaking news story? Send <a href=\"https:\/\/www.azfamily.com\/community\/user-content\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">it to us here<\/a> with a brief description.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2025 KTVK\/KPHO. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"PHOENIX (AZFamily) \u2014 A Phoenix man who was recently convicted of sexually abusing at least two teen girls&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":265752,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5131],"tags":[2106,5229,5643,1587,7182,61487,1230,138651,563,3344,1589,7183,40906,17024,10410,138652,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-265751","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-phoenix","8":"tag-alcohol","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-arizona","11":"tag-az","12":"tag-azfamily","13":"tag-child-rape","14":"tag-drugs","15":"tag-gordon-golding","16":"tag-instagram","17":"tag-marijuana","18":"tag-phoenix","19":"tag-phoenix-news","20":"tag-punishment","21":"tag-sentencing","22":"tag-sexual-abuse","23":"tag-teenage-students","24":"tag-united-states","25":"tag-united-states-of-america","26":"tag-unitedstates","27":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","28":"tag-us","29":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115291702793851820","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265751"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265751\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265751"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265751"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}