Former Sacramento-area foster parent gets 30 years to life for sexually assaulting children
RANCHO CORDOVA — A former foster parent in Rancho Cordova was sentenced to 30 years to life in prison for sexually assaulting multiple children and being in possession of child pornography, prosecutors said Friday.
Kevin Baker, 43, pleaded no contest to four counts of committing lewd acts on a child and possession of child porn back in early October, the Sacramento County District Attorney's Office said.
Prosecutors said Baker admitted to having multiple victims and befriending children with the intent of molesting them. He would frequent a skate park to lure victims to his home and groom them with gifts, money, alcohol or marijuana.
In one instance, Baker took a child from a homeless shelter in to live with him and molested him over several years, prosecutors said.
The district attorney's office noted that Baker "is a serial child molester with known conduct from 2008 to 2018."
Baker became a foster parent in 2011. In 2018, a neighbor of Baker's reported him to law enforcement after witnessing Baker installing a camera to capture images of children he was fostering, prosecutors said.
When detectives served a search warrant at his Rancho Cordova home, they discovered images of Baker abusing a child. Baker was then taken into custody.
The district attorney's office said Baker will be eligible for release at an elder parole hearing once he is at least 50 and serves 20 years of his 30-year sentence. With his current in-custody credits, that would be in about 14 years.
