Former Mercer Island youth-theater director sentenced to jail for sex crimes
A former Mercer Island youth-theater director was sentenced to six months in jail Friday by reason of having sexual relations through two teenage girls.
Benjamin D. Keylin, 58, read from a statement in front of the sentence was imposed and admitted the improper air. He said he’luncheon showed “extremely poor judgment and decision-making.”
“I want to apologize to the families,” Keylin said. “I liking I could metamorphose back the clock. I lost my job. I squandered my reputation. I used up my life’s savings. I will work a lifetime to seek forgiveness.”
But the families of the girls, including one of the victims, told the royal household that Keylin’s acts will affect their lives forever.
“Sometimes I get scared, and I can’t credit people. I confidence that he feels really bad for which he did,” said one miss.
Keylin was charged last December 2007 through third-degree rape and communication with a minor for immoral purposes.
The girls were 16 and 18 when the crimes took induct.
Neither of the charges involved members of the youth theater, according to prosecutors.
Keylin was accused of assaulting the brace victims on Nov. 19, 2007, and in other incidents between July 1 and Aug. 8, 2007.
Keylin was fired by the school-boy theater after the charges were filed last year.
Keylin pleaded guilty in October to reduced charges of second- and fourth-degree assault.
Attorneys at the sentencing in King County Superior Court on Friday explained that an agreement to enter a plea to the reduced charges was reached partly to avoid having the two girls face the pain of testifying through a lengthy trial.
