Ex-Sacramento elementary teacher, who videotaped sex abuse of young girls, pleads guilty
A longtime Del Paso Heights Elementary School teacher, who videotaped female students as young as 6 years old performing sex acts on him on campus and at his home, agreed to plead guilty to several counts of child sexual abuse in connection with his work running the school’s audio-visual club, prosecutors announced.
Kim Kenneth Wilson, 64, agreed to plead guilty to nine counts of committing lewd acts upon a child in court Tuesday. He had faced 36 counts in connection with lewd and lascivious acts on children under 14 that prosecutors said were videotaped as early as 2014.
Under the plea agreement, Wilson will be sentenced to 215 years to life in prison but could become eligible for release under the state’s Elder Parole Program hearing. The D.A.’s Office said, with time served, Wilson would be up to parole as early as 2042.
“Some charges were dismissed in exchange for an agreed upon disposition,” the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office said Wednesday. “However, the court is allowed to consider those dismissed charges at the time of sentencing. Here, the negotiation spares the victims from having to testify in court and results in a sentence of 215 years to life.”
The sexual assaults took place on the Del Paso Heights Elementary campus — where he taught from 2000 until his arrest in January 2023 — and at Wilson’s home during events he hosted. Throughout his tenure, Wilson took female students to a private classroom where he assaulted them, often videotaping the acts, according to court documents.
During a search of his Meadowview home in 2023, Sacramento police detectives found a cache of child-sized sex toys, VHS tapes and DVDs containing videos of Wilson sexually assaulting the children. The videos showed assaults spanning multiple years with numerous students, prosecutors said. Court documents, which listed multiple Does, placed the children’s ages between 6 and 12 years old.
The Twin Rivers Unified School District Police Department received a lewd conduct report about an incident involving Wilson, then a fifth-grade teacher, and a juvenile in 2019 and forwarded it to Sacramento police. Officers said at the time that department records showed that the case was suspended, according to previous Bee reporting. A second student reported to police that Wilson had sexually assaulted her in 2014.
Wilson was the subject of multiple other complaints prior to his arrest, including two for racist remarks and other inappropriate behavior, including calling a Black student a “burnt cockroach,” teasing students for their weight and describing his history of dating Black women.
He is expected to be sentenced Aug. 22 and will remain in custody at Rio Cosumnes Correction Center near Elk Grove.
