Prosecutors bring more charges in Sonoma child-sex case

Prosecutors on Thursday expanded their child molestation case against a former Boys and Girls Club of Sonoma Valley employee, charging him with lewd acts against a third young boy.

Paul Dwayne Kilgore, 68, who remains in custody on $1 million bail, now faces a total of seven counts carrying a maximum 15-years-to-life sentence.

The white-haired man appeared in a Santa Rosa courtroom, where prosecutor Javier Vaca announced the new allegations in a case spanning 2010 to 2016.

Vaca would not say if the alleged victims were contacted through the club, where Kilgore worked as athletics director for about a decade before resigning in 2013.

He said the latest charges stemmed from the original investigation, which began in August. He would not give further details or say if more charges were coming. Kilgore is expected to enter a plea at his next scheduled court date Nov. 3.

Sam Singer, a spokesman for the Boys and Girls Club, could not say if the alleged victims met Kilgore through the club. Singer said the organization is working closely with law enforcement on the investigation. Kilgore had no contact with the club since leaving, an official previously said.

Search warrant documents obtained this week shed new light on the case.

Kilgore was arrested Sept. 18 after a member of the Parkpoint Health Club in Healdsburg reported seeing him with two boys, ages 11 and 12, in the hot tub and shower areas of the club locker room on Aug. 27.

The Parkpoint member, described as a local elementary school teacher, said he overheard Kilgore asking the boys if they were circumsized and if they liked bubble baths, according to the documents prepared by Healdsburg police Officer Craig Smith.

Later, while the three were standing naked, Kilgore pointed to a boy’s penis and brushed a hand against his bare thigh, the documents said.

The teacher said he was “sickened” by the behavior, the documents said.

An investigation led to Kilgore’s Sonoma home where lives with his 94-year-old father. Kilgore told the officer he had a “big brother” relationship with one of the boys, who he took out for regular activities. He admitted having a similar relationship with the boy’s three older brothers, the oldest of which is now 20, and knew the brother of the other boy in the hot tub.

He said he was accustomed to talking to the boys about circumcision and didn’t think much of it. He did not deny touching one of the boys on the thigh, the document said.

Also, Kilgore said he quit the Boys and Girls Club in 2012 after more than ?10 years when the organization changed its policies to prohibit staff members from seeing children after work hours, the documents said.

Interviews with the boys and their parents revealed a pattern in which Kilgore is alleged to have taken some of them on numerous outings over several years. Mostly, they went swimming at facilities as far away as Sacramento. Other locations included Santa Rosa, Petaluma, Monte Rio, Fairfield and Vacaville, the documents said.

One of the boys said Kilgore had touched his “private parts” many times over six or seven years. His brother, now 14, said Kilgore touched him more than five times. He defended Kilgore as a good friend to the family who taught him a lot but conceded words to the effect of “Dwayne did some things he shouldn’t have done,” the documents said.

The mother of the four brothers told officers the family had known Kilgore for 12 years and was introduced to him through a neighbor whose children he took on similar activities.

“He presented himself as a good person,” she told investigators in Spanish.

She said Kilgore contacted the boys by cellphone and kept clothes and swimsuits in the trunk of his car for them. Her two oldest boys always went with him together and never reported any abuse. But her two younger boys each spent time with him alone. Kilgore requested they visit him one at a time to keep them from fighting, the documents said.

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