Kenneth Bigler, a club-level road racer and longtime member of the Southern California mini road racing community, has been sentenced to 17 and a half years in prison and 10 years of supervision after prison as part of a plea agreement in which he admitted to traveling to Tijuana, Mexico to have sexual contact with girls between the ages of 14 and 16, according to a report appearing December 18 at https://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/courts/s…

Evidence submitted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in its five-count criminal complaint against Bigler indicated that he traveled to Mexico on multiple occasions between 2013 and 2017 to have sex with children and that he tried to arrange to have sex with girls and boys as young as eight. 

In the end, Bigler entered a plea of guilty to one count of attempted sexual exploitation of a child. 

Bigler was registered as a sex offender during the time he committed this offense, and prosecutors noted that Bigler’s criminal record already included “multiple convictions for indecent exposure, including one incident involving a minor,” according to the San Diego Union Tribune’s report.

Bigler, 54, of Walnut, California, raced with the now-defunct Willow Springs Motorcycle Club (WSMC) and with WERA from 2009-2010 and participated in SCminiGP mini road racing events dating back to at least 2006. Posts on Bigler’s social media account show that Bigler interacted regularly with children who road raced.