A former Sacramento elementary college trainer 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 could 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 toddler, in response to the Sacramento County district lawyer’s workplace. He’ll change 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 trainer 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 came about, prosecutors mentioned.
After taking youngsters to the room, he would commit intercourse acts on them — usually recording or photographing them. He typically pressured 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 response to 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 pupil abuse, one among which was settled earlier this month for $6 million, in response to the Sacramento Bee.
That criticism, filed in January 2023, alleges Wilson used his place of authority to groom and sexually abuse a feminine sixth grader on college grounds throughout the 2014-15 college 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 along with his arms and fingers and drive her to orally copulate him,” the criticism alleges.
Based on the criticism, 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 didn’t supervisor Wilson’s habits, permitting his misconduct to proceed for years.
A second civil case, filed in June 2023, outlines an analogous historical past of alleged abuse — this time of a 7-year-old feminine pupil throughout the 2013-14 college 12 months.
Wilson routinely pulled her into the printed room throughout her common class intervals and recess intervals and took images of the second-grader’s genitalia, the criticism alleges. On not less than one event he directed her to carry a sausage in her mouth whereas he took images of her from a number of angles, the criticism alleges.
The criticism alleges that the varsity district knew, or ought to have recognized, 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 Court docket.