(WHAS11)- A former manager at the American Printing House for the Blind began serving jail time Tuesday after admitting to sex crimes involving a teenage boy.
Darrell Buford was called a 'predator' by the judge and parents of his alleged victims.
WHAS11 has been reporting about Buford since last August.
WHAS11 reported that despite multiple felony sex crime convictions in the early 1990's, he managed to get a job at the American Printing House for the Blind, was appointed to a governor's commission and even became alumni president of the Kentucky School for the Blind.
Tuesday in court, Buford's latest victim's family revealed something else; they said he had a master key to the school.
Darrell Buford got another big break Tuesday - just 90 days in jail for allegedly repeatedly molesting his former neighbor.
Those crimes could have landed him in prison for decades.
'No one else has any guilt in this at all except me,' said Buford.
That admission didn't mean there were no hard feelings.
'I consider him to be a predator. He specifically targeted our son,' said Cynthia Jackson, who addressed the court before Buford's sentence was officially handed down.
'It is inexcusable to ruin lives. Children's lives,' said Judge Judith McDonald Burkman.
McDonald Burkman told Buford, 'If there are any violations at all, major, minor or anything in between, I will sentence you to prison for 10 years. You need to know that.'
Buford has received one break after another.
Despite sodomy and sex abuse convictions involving his own adopted children in 1993, Buford only served 9 months of a 10 year sentence.
Then he was hired as the coordinator of human resources for the American Printing House For The Blind, where WHAS11 found him still working last August, even after his latest indictment.
The printing house shares the same campus as the Kentucky School for the Blind, where Buford served for 5 years as the Alumni Association President.
The latest victim, who does not attend the school, said in a victim impact statement tendered to the court that Buford took him swimming in the campus pool after hours with his own master key.
'There were so many opportunities Darrell had through different circumstances, but especially to have a key to a building that had children,' said Jackson. 'Children that cannot fend for themselves.'
The Kentucky Department of Education, which operates the school, said it had no knowledge that Buford ever had a key and maintains he was never left alone with children.
'He is a predator. There are others out there, I'm afraid,' said K.C. Cooper, whose now-grown sons were Buford's first victims.
After his release from Louisville Metro Corrections, Buford will spend the next 9 months at his home in the Worthington Hills subdivision under house arrest. He will also become the neighborhood's first registered convicted sex offender, nearly two decades after his first conviction.
Like his former employer, no one in that neighborhood full of swing sets and sidewalk chalk, where he met his latest victim, seemed to know about Buford's past.
'None of the neighbors had ever mentioned anything about him,' said Betty McReynolds, who lives next door to Buford.
'I apologize. There's nothing I can do to take back what I did,' said Buford, who addressed Judge Judith McDonald as 'heavenly father' twice before correcting himself by addressing her as 'your honor'.
'I'm ashamed of it and I will be ashamed of it for the rest of my life,' Buford said.
Buford said he has attended 49 sessions of sex offender treatment group therapy sessions so far and plans to develop a 'safety plan' upon his release from custody.
'I don't believe that Darrell is sorry that he did what he did,' said Jackson, who said she believes Buford is just sorry he got caught.
She says she is very proud of her son for coming forward and hopes it will help encourage others to report sex crimes.
