A disgraced California elementary school teacher was sentenced to more than two centuries in prison last Friday after authorities unravelled the decades-long sexual abuse he committed against many of his own students.
Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, served as the head of the audio-visual club at Del Paso Heights Elementary School for 23 years before he was axed when the stomach-turning abuse was revealed.
Wilson wound up curating a mountain of evidence against himself, including sick photographs and videos he captured of himself committing sex acts on his female students, often as young as 6 or 7 years old.
Thanks to his position as AV club head, he was flush with resources — including a soundproof broadcasting room where he would assault his victims, according to the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office.
Authorities also learned that the teacher abused more children at his home during private events. It’s unclear if these additional victims were related to the school.
While searching Wilson’s home in 2023, detectives with the Sacramento Police Department uncovered heaps of child-sized sex toys alongside VHS and DVDs with videos of the vile teacher sexually assaulting the children, according to the DA’s office.
The collection spanned over multiple years with a variety of different victims, all listed between the ages of 6 and 12 years old.
The creep pleaded guilty in February to several counts of child sexual abuse in connection with the videos.
He originally faced a staggering 36 counts in connection with lewd and lascivious acts on children under 14. Some charges, though, were dismissed in order to spare the victims from having to testify in court.
Still, Wilson was slapped with the doomsday sentence that, in nearly any other state, would likely guarantee his demise behind bars.
But because of Wilson’s advanced age, he will be eligible for release depending on the outcome of an Elder Parole hearing once he has served 20 years of his sentence. By that point, Wilson will be in his mid-80s.
For now, he’s being held at the Rio Consumnes Correctional Center in Elk Grove, a medium-security facility where he’ll remain until transfer to a state prison.
Many of Wilson’s victims are still fighting for justice.
The Twin Rivers Unified School District only just reached a $6 million lawsuit settlement in a civil case alleging that it failed to properly supervise Wilson and permitted his gross misconduct to go unchecked for more than two decades, The Sacramento Bee reported.
Another family is still seeking damages from Wilson and the district through a separate civil case filed more than two years ago that is still proceeding in court.
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