CALIFORNIA
Orange County Register
BY ERIC HARTLEY / STAFF WRITER
Published: May 29, 2014
A former Catholic school teacher was convicted Thursday of three felony counts for having sex with a 14-year-old former student.
The jury acquitted Ricardo Aldana, 40, of four other counts.
He’ll be sentenced July 11, and the prosecutor said he faces a maximum sentence of four years and four months in prison. Under the law, the judge could also choose to give him less time behind bars or probation with no jail time.
The jury considered seven counts of lewd acts upon a child. Before the verdicts were read in court, Aldana crossed himself. He put his head down on the table briefly when the first not-guilty verdict was read, then held his hands to his face without looking at the jury.
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