Keyboardist jailed in sexual assault

Aformer keyboardist for Brian Wilson’s band has been sentenced to five years in prison after a jury convicted him of sexually assaulting a 21-year- old woman after a show at an Oklahoma casino.

Scott Montgomery Bennett, 51, was convicted in April of rape by instrumentation and sexual battery for the December 2014 incident at the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino near Tulsa, Okla. On Tuesday, District Judge J. Dwayne Steidley sentenced Bennett to five years in prison and ordered him to register as a sex offender.

Bennett, of Los Angeles, performed on many of the former Beach Boys’ albums, including 2004’s Brian Wilson Presents Smile.

At trial in April, jurors were shown a surveillance video that was also described in a police affidavit. According to the Tulsa World, the video shows Bennett encountering the woman in an elevator, then preventing her from leaving. The video then shows Bennett pulling down the woman’s pants in a hotel hallway and engaging in sexual contact.

“It is clear from watching the video that the victim is extreamly (sic) intoxicated and is unaware of her surroundings,” a Catoosa, Okla. police officer wrote in the affidavit. “The subject however appears to be in complete control of his faculties.”

Bennett and the woman then went to a hotel room, prosecutors said. The end of the surveillance video showed Bennett leaving the woman in a hallway on the seventh floor, where she was later discovered and interviewed by police.