A 12-year-old boy testified in a Santa Rosa courtroom Thursday that a former Sonoma Valley Boys and Girls Club employee and family friend fondled him at the man’s house and at a Healdsburg gym.
The statements came in a preliminary hearing for Paul “Dwayne” Kilgore, 69, who was arrested in September after the allegations surfaced. Kilgore was athletic director for the Boys and Girls Club for about a decade before resigning in 2013.
In barely audible testimony, the boy said he met Kilgore at age six and had gone with him to swimming pools and movie theaters in the area.
Sometime in 2015, the boy said Kilgore took him and a friend to Kilgore’s house where they played computer games in a bedroom. At some point, the conversation turned to circumcision, and Kilgore asked him to lie on his bed, the boy said.
“He told me to pull my pants down,” the boy testified.
He said Kilgore touched his “private parts” as he explained some people undergo the procedure and others do not, the boy said.
The boy also testified about the August incident at Park Point Athletic Club leading to Kilgore’s arrest. He said Kilgore touched his penis after he, the older man and another friend got out of a hut tub. At the time, Kilgore was also talking about circumcision, he said.
Kilgore, who has pleaded not guilty to child molestation charges, listened from across the courtroom. He faces 15 years to life in prison if convicted at trial.
Before the boy took the stand, a health club member testified that he overheard the conversation Kilgore was allegedly having and saw him brush the back of his hand on the boy’s naked thigh.
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