California elementary teacher filmed himself sexually assaulting kids at school, authorities say
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Kim Kenneth Wilson, a 64-year-old former Del Paso Heights Elementary teacher, used his role as head of the campus broadcasting club to groom and sexually assault numerous students over several years. He isolated children in a windowless, soundproof club room and sometimes at his home, where he photographed and recorded the assaults and forced victims to perform on camera. Police recovered child-sized artificial genitalia, a child-sized torso, and extensive recordings. Wilson pleaded guilty to nine felony counts of lewd acts on a child and received a 215-years-to-life sentence, with eligibility for elder parole after 17 years. Two civil lawsuits involve Wilson and the school district.
A former Sacramento elementary school teacher used his position as head of the campus broadcast club to groom numerous students and film himself sexually assaulting them in the club's private room for years, authorities said. Now he may spend the rest of his life behind bars. On Friday, 64-year-old Kim Kenneth Wilson was sentenced to 215 years to life after pleading guilty to nine felony counts of committing lewd acts upon a child, according to the Sacramento County district attorney's office.
Wilson was a longtime teacher at Del Paso Heights Elementary School where he founded the broadcasting club, which had its own windowless, soundproof room. This is where most of his crimes took place, prosecutors said. After taking children to the room, he would commit sex acts on them - often recording or photographing them. He sometimes forced students to look into the camera while saying and depicting sexual acts, prosecutors said.
When Sacramento police searched his home they made several alarming discoveries - child-sized artificial genitalia, a child-sized torso with artificial genitalia and a vast trove of recordings depicting Wilson assaulting children who had been entrusted to his care, prosecutors said. The Twin Rivers School District did not immediately respond to a request for comment regarding Wilson Friday. Wilson and the Twin Rivers Unified School District are also involved in two civil lawsuits related to student abuse,
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