FLORIDA
WPTV
[with video]
Brian Entin
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. – After deliberating all morning a jury reached a verdict Tuesday in the case of a former Rosarian Academy Elementary School teacher accused of child molestation.
The jury found Stephen Budd guilty on all counts of molesting two Rosarian Academy students when they were in the fourth grade.
A short time later he was sentenced to life in prison and classified as a sexual predator.
The girls, now in their late teens, testified during the trial about the sexual abuse that happened in the classroom.
Prosecutors told the jury Monday afternoon that there was no reason the girls would make up the stories.
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