A "longtime teacher" in Sacramento was sentenced to 215 years to life in prison after admitting in court to sexually assaulting female students and photographing and videotaping the abuse, county prosecutors announced.
Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, pleaded guilty to nine counts of committing lewd acts upon a child on Feb. 25. On Friday, Aug. 22, Judge Satnam Rattu handed down the sentence to the now-former Del Paso Heights Elementary School teacher, according to the Sacramento County Prosecutor's Office.
Throughout Wilson's tenure at the elementary school, he would take female students to a room designated for a private media/broadcasting club he established, prosecutors said. Once in the room alone with the girls, he "committed sex acts on the students, often photographing or recording the sex acts," prosecutors added.
While most of the sexual assaults happened in the school broadcasting room, some of Wilson's victims were assaulted at the teacher's home during events he hosted, according to the prosecutor's office. When law enforcement learned about the sexual assaults, Sacramento police detectives searched Wilson's home and found several "child sized sex toys," prosecutors said.
Additionally, detectives discovered a "substantial amount of VHS tapes, DVDs and other digital storage devices containing videos depicting Wilson sexually assaulting his students," prosecutors stated. The videos include abuse spanning multiple years, with numerous students, according to prosecutors, adding that the recorded content also shows Wilson forcing the children "to look into the camera while saying and depicting sexual acts."
