SAN DIEGO–A Superior Court judge handed down a 120 year-to-life sentence, plus five years to a 43-year-old former teacher and online child predator for molesting four boys including a former student.
John Raymond Kinloch was convicted in June of 33 felony charges including committing lewd acts on a child and possession of child pornography.
“Sexual predators who target our children are some of the worst criminals on the street,” District Attorney Bonnie Dumanis said. “They steal innocence and rob families of their spirit. I’m proud of the hard work Deputy DA Harrison Kennedy who prosecuted this case.”
Over a five-year period, Kinloch – a former teacher at Wolf Canyon Elementary in Chula Vista – targeted young boys online by posing as a 13-year-old girl. He also pursued intimate relationships with two children in San Diego – one of whom was his own elementary school student. Kinloch posed as various girls – as well as a boy – to trick middle school students into performing sexually explicit acts and recording them for his own gratification. Kinloch’s web of perversion began to unravel after an employee of a website he used to contact teenage boys spotted two nude pictures he posted. The employee sent a tip to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children. Just one tip opened up an enormous investigation that exposed Kinloch’s pursuit of boys since 1996. The District Attorney’s Office along with the Internet Crimes against Children Task Force investigated this case.
“This sentencing should serve as a sober warning,” said Mike Carney, interim special agent in charge for ICE Homeland Security Investigations in San Diego. “There is no hiding place on the Internet for child sexual predators. HSI special agents are committed to combatting child sexual exploitation. In doing so, we use our cybercrime expertise, while working jointly with our law enforcement partners on the San Diego-based Internet Crimes Against Children Task Force and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, to bring child sexual predators in our community to justice.”
