Former city man gets 4-8 years for videotaping rapes of unconscious victim

Jeffrey R. Gough Jr. (Rochester Police photo)

DOVER - A former Rochester man was sentenced to four to eight years in state prison on Tuesday for raping a woman in 2021, a rape that he, himself, took videos of on his cellphone, according to an affidavit filed by Rochester police.
Jeffrey R. Gough Jr., 42, formerly of Rochester Hill Road, was accused of engaging in various sex acts with the victim, who was in her 30s and at the time of the September 2021 assaults "physically helpless to resist," according to court documents.
The victim, who told police she considered Gough a trusted friend, said she first saw the video of her being raped when he asked her to answer his phone.
"(The victim) stated that she answered the phone and when the call ended, the screen on the phone went to a video of Jeffrey having sex with her," according to the affidavit filed by Rochester Police Sgt. Thomas Powers.
The victim, who was unconscious at the time of the assaults, called police on Sept. 16, 2021, to report she'd been raped.
After seizing the phone, police downloaded eight videos that amounted to about an hour of footage that showed Gough performing various sex acts on the victim.
A mutual friend told police that Gough told her that he "might have fucked up and done something very wrong." He then admitted to having sex with (the victim) when she was asleep, the affidavit states.
The affidavit notes that during all of the videos the victim's voice is never heard.
Gough, who lived in Barrington prior to his arrest, was booked on the charges on May 4 and indicted in July. He can shave a year off his time if he completes a sex offender program. Gough was also given a 12 months concurrent sentence on a Violation of Privacy charge and a 10-20 years suspended suspended sentence on a third aggravated felonious sex assault charge.