Sacramento man arrested by FBI in connection with multiple sexual assaults worked for city

Molly Jarone
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A 35-year-old man Sacramento man was arrested in New York in connection with multiple sexual assaults, the Sacramento Police Department said in a news release Thursday.

Kabeh Cummings is suspected of committing multiple sexual assaults in Sacramento starting in 2010, police said.

According to Transparent California, a website that tracks government payroll data, Cummings worked for the city of Sacramento in several roles over the past decade including as a human services program coordinator and a special program leader. A spokeswoman for the city confirmed Cummings was employed by the city between 2008 and 2014, but it was unclear if Cummings’ work gave him access to children.

“We are working to establish the exact positions he held,” the spokeswoman said in an email to The Sacramento Bee on Thursday afternoon.

Transparent California also said Cummings worked one summer as a staff member with the small Arcade Creek Recreation and Park District in North Highlands, Old Foothill Farms and Carmichael.

In his LinkedIn profile, Cummings described his work with the city as a site director maintaining “daily site supervision and support of staff, and students through designated policies and procedures of safety and compliance.”

He goes on to list previous job experience at AmeriCorps with its “child abuse prevention council” and with the city’s START program, managing students between kindergarten and sixth grade after school. The city’s website says the START program works with about 1,000 students in the Robla Unified School District at five different school sites.

Cummings was arrested Tuesday by the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

“Cummings will be extradited to Sacramento, where he will be booked at the Sacramento County Main Jail,” the Police Department said.

He will be booked on suspicion of multiple charges involving allegations of kidnapping to commit rape with a foreign object by force, forcible oral copulation, forcible rape and sodomy of an unconscious victim, police said.

Several law enforcement agencies collaborated in the arrest of Cummings, including Sacramento and New York police, the Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, the Sacramento County District Attorney’s Office and federal law enforcement in Sacramento and New York.

The District Attorney’s Office will host a news conference Tuesday to share more information about Cummings’ arrest, police said.