A former Sacramento elementary faculty instructor used his place as head of the campus broadcast membership to groom quite a few college students and movie himself sexually assaulting them within the membership’s personal room for years, authorities mentioned.
Now he might spend the remainder of his life behind bars.
On Friday, 64-year-old Kim Kenneth Wilson was sentenced to 215 years to life after pleading responsible to 9 felony counts of committing lewd acts upon a baby, in line with the Sacramento County district lawyer’s workplace. He’ll develop into eligible for elder parole in 17 years, prosecutors mentioned.
Kim Kenneth Wilson was arrested in 2023 by the Sacramento Police Division.
(Sacramento Police Division)
Wilson was a longtime instructor at Del Paso Heights Elementary Faculty the place he based the broadcasting membership, which had its personal windowless, soundproof room. That is the place most of his crimes passed off, prosecutors mentioned.
After taking youngsters to the room, he would commit intercourse acts on them — typically recording or photographing them. He typically compelled college students to look into the digital camera whereas saying and depicting sexual acts, prosecutors mentioned.
He additionally sexually assaulted some younger victims whereas internet hosting occasions at his residence, in line with authorities.
When Sacramento police searched his residence they made a number of alarming discoveries — child-sized synthetic genitalia, a child-sized torso with synthetic genitalia and an unlimited trove of recordings depicting Wilson assaulting youngsters who had been entrusted to his care, prosecutors mentioned.
The Twin Rivers Faculty District didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark concerning Wilson Friday.
Wilson and the Twin Rivers Unified Faculty District are additionally concerned in two civil lawsuits associated to scholar abuse, one among which was settled earlier this month for $6 million, in line with the Sacramento Bee.
That grievance, filed in January 2023, alleges Wilson used his place of authority to groom and sexually abuse a feminine sixth grader on faculty grounds in the course of the 2014-15 faculty 12 months.
“Wilson remoted plaintiff in his classroom behind a closed and/or locked door and/or in a locked, windowless, padded silent room inside his classroom the place he proceeded to take images of her, contact her breasts, kiss her, penetrate her vagina together with his palms and fingers and drive her to orally copulate him,” the grievance alleges.
In response to the grievance, the lady suffered bodily accidents and shock to her nervous system, which proceed to trigger her psychological and bodily ache. It additional alleges that the district did not supervisor Wilson’s habits, permitting his misconduct to proceed for years.
A second civil case, filed in June 2023, outlines the same historical past of alleged abuse — this time of a 7-year-old feminine scholar in the course of the 2013-14 faculty 12 months.
Wilson routinely pulled her into the published room throughout her common class intervals and recess intervals and took images of the second-grader’s genitalia, the grievance alleges. On a minimum of one event he directed her to carry a sausage in her mouth whereas he took images of her from a number of angles, the grievance alleges.
The grievance alleges that the varsity district knew, or ought to have identified, about Wilson’s sexual abuse of a number of younger college students and failed to guard their security. The case stays open in Sacramento County Superior Courtroom.
