Font ResizeKeith Lorraine Gillins -- a Millard High School teacher and former Fillmore mayor accused of having sex with a 17-year-old female student in Millard County -- also is charged with having sex with the girl in neighboring Juab County.
Gillins, 61, who is now back behind bars, was charged last week in Nephi's 4th District Court with one count of rape and two counts of forcible sodomy, all first-degree felonies.
Charging documents say Gillins rented a motel room in Nephi on Easter weekend and invited the girl there to have sex by sending a text message. Motel records confirmed the rental, and Gillins allegedly admitted to police he had sex with the girl there.
Gillins was already charged in Millard County with four counts of first-degree felony rape and 11 counts of second-degree felony forcible sexual abuse. According to a probable cause statement in that case, the girl told investigators she had sexual intercourse with Gillins -- the first time in a classroom at the high school.
After Gillins was arrested June 8, he admitted to having a sexual relationship with the girl and confirmed the classroom incident occurred sometime in November 2008, according to the statement. Gillins also told police that sexual intercourse occurred in a vehicle near 500 South and 200 West in Fillmore during the winter of 2009, the statement says.
The charges in that case allege the sex acts occurred between Oct. 5 and April 4 and that Gillins occupied a
Juab County Attorney Jared Eldridge said Tuesday that Gillins allegedly had been sending the girl text messages, but he did not know the content.
Gillins worked at Millard High School from 1973 to 1979, according to the Millard County School District. He left the school to sell insurance and was Fillmore's mayor from 1986 to 1997. Gillins returned in 2003 to Millard High, where he taught English and coached boys basketball.
Gillins has a 2005 shoplifting conviction in Provo, where his misdemeanor guilty plea was dismissed after her served six months probation.
Court records show Gillins' wife, Constance Gillins, a 61-year-old elementary school teacher, filed for divorce on May 19 after nearly 42 years of marriage. In seeking a protective order against her husband, Constance Gillins referenced an argument they had in April during which she told her daughter that Keith Gillins had "already admitted to an inappropriate relationship," according to court documents.
An attorney representing Constance Gillins has declined to comment on whether the relationship was with the alleged victim in the criminal case.
Keith Gillins is to appear Wednesday for a scheduling hearing In the Millard County case. A scheduling hearing in the Juab County case is set for Aug. 4.
