Prosecutors stated Bahram Hojreh, of Irvine, molested the youngster women and “touched their breasts, twisted their nipples, touched their genitals above and under their swimsuits and digitally penetrated them underwater at some stage in education classes.”
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The disgraced educate might tell the younger girls what he turned into doing turned into essential to “enhance them up for competition,” prosecutors said.
After a 5-week trial, a jury on Wednesday observed Hojreh, 46, guilty of twenty-two prison counts, which includes sexual battery, sexual penetration and lewd acts on a baby.
The water polo gamers were between the a long time of thirteen to 17 years vintage on the time of the incidents, from 2012 to 2017, prosecutors said. The jury also determined him responsible of easy assault in connection to one of the Jane Does.
Hojreh testified in his own defense and denied the allegations. The disgraced former teach said his former athletes were part of a “conspiracy” against him. His protection attorney, John Barnett, accused the younger ladies of mendacity, in keeping with the Orange County Register.
Hojreh coached the International Water Polo Club in Los Alamitos, Calif. And additionally coached at Kennedy High School in La Palma. The assaults passed off in the course of pool education classes on the Joint Forces Training Base in Los Alamitos, prosecutors said.
Parents who attended the training sessions have been unaware the perverted instruct was sexually assaulting their daughters simply ft away.
“My coronary heart breaks for every the sort of sufferers and for his or her parents who did everything they may to assist their children gain their athletic desires and alternatively had to study the painful truth, that their daughters had been molested right in the front of them – and there was nothing they could do to guard them,” Orange County District Attorney Todd Spitzer stated.
“Thankfully, these brave ladies had the braveness to speak up about the abuse and avoided additional women from being molested.”
— New York Post (@nypost) November 18, 2022
The younger women started out to confide in each other in 2017 however determined to inform the dad and mom approximately a 12 months later. The households promptly stated the attacks to police.
Hojreh trained more than a hundred All Americans and led at least 10 groups to the country wide champions at some stage in his profession. He is now banned for existence from taking part in events affiliated with USA Water Polo, in keeping with the Orange County Register.
Hojreh, who turned into out on bail during the trial, became straight away taken into custody following Wednesday’s verdict. He is being held with out bail till he is sentenced on January 12.
