SANTA ANA, Calif.—An Orange County piano instructor was sentenced Friday to 100 years to life in prison for molesting eight girls over the course of 18 years.
John Mordecai Scott, 65, was initially accused of molesting 11 girls, but one did not wish to participate in the non-jury bench trial before Orange County Superior Court Judge Steve Bromberg, and charges related to another alleged victim were dismissed before the verdict. Another alleged victim for whom Scott was not charged testified as a witness in the trial. Scott was convicted in March on 26 sex-related counts.
He molested girls ranging in age from 7 to 15 while teaching piano at studios in Rancho Santa Margarita and Mission Viejo, as well as at his Lake Forest home.
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