A former substitute elementary teacher in Carpentersville already serving a 122-year prison term for sexually assaulting children has been sentenced to another 60 years after pleading guilty to a dozen more counts, officials said.

       Carlos A. Bedoya, 66, of Aurora, was found guilty by a Kane County jury in 2019 of eight counts of predatory criminal sexual assault. In the plea deal this week, he agreed to plead guilty to 12 counts of aggravated criminal sexual abuse in exchange for the 60-year sentence — five years for each count, the Kane County State’s Attorney’s Office said.

       There were 12 victims in total, all children in kindergarten through third grade at Golfview Elementary School in Carpentersville, where Bedoya was their substitute teacher. The incidents took place between August 2015 and June 2017.

       The first charge came in July 2017 when Bedoya was arrested for fondling a 6-year-old boy. More children then came forward and additional charges followed.

       In an August 2019 trial, he was found guilty of having sexual contact with a child multiple times between August 2015 and June 2016 in incidents that occurred at Bedoya’s then-home in Lake in the Hills, Spring Hill Mall in West Dundee and Golfview Elementary School.

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       In addition to working as a substitute teacher, Bedoya was also School District 300 paraeducator and a youth soccer coach for the Boys & Girls Club of Dundee Township.

       Kane County Judge Donald Tegeler accepted the guilty plea. It should ensure that Bedoya will spend the rest of his life in prison, prosecutors said.

       “His guilty pleas in the remaining cases spare a dozen child sexual abuse survivors from the trauma and emotion of testifying in front of a jury, and it provides additional assurance that this predator will not take another breath as a free man,” Assistant State’s Attorney Tyler Cox said in a statement.

       Bedoya and School District 300 are also defendants in six civil lawsuits, some of which also include a former school principal and the Boys & Girls Club of Dundee Township. In some of the suits it’s charged that there was “willful and wanton” actions taken in Bedoya’s hiring, supervision and retention and that Bedoya was employed despite lacking valid credentials and identification.

       Several of the suits also charge that Bedoya’s conduct was reported to school district staff or Boys & Girls Club officials in 2015 and 2017 but no action taken.

       mejones@chicagotribune.com

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