SANTA ANA, Calif.—A well-known water polo coach has been convicted of sexual assaults on nine girls he coached and a misdemeanor assault on a 10th, according to verdicts announced Nov. 16.
Bahram Hojreh, 46, was convicted Tuesday of 22 felony counts including lewd or lascivious acts with a minor under 14, lewd acts on a child 14 or 15, sexual penetration by a foreign object of a minor, and sexual battery by fraud for nine victims. He was acquitted of sexually assaulting a 10th girl, but jurors convicted him of misdemeanor counts of simple assault in her case.
Jurors, who deliberated for about three days, reached their verdicts at the end of the day Tuesday, so they were read aloud Wednesday morning in court….