I.E. Daycare Worker Convicted of Sexually Assaulting Child

RIVERSIDE COUNTY, CA -- A Riverside man who sexually assaulted a young girl at a home-based daycare facility was convicted Monday of multiple counts of child molestation.

A Murrieta jury deliberated less than two days before finding Hubert David Edgin, 50, guilty of two counts each of lewd acts on a minor and oral copulation of a child under 10 years old.

Riverside County Superior Court Judge John Davis scheduled a sentencing hearing for Jan. 24 at the Southwest Justice Center. Edgin, who's being held without bail at the Byrd Detention Center, is facing 30 years to life in state prison.

He was arrested in September 2018 following a Riverside police investigation centered at his residence on Sun Court, near Patterson Park, in the city's Eastside quarter.

The victim, identified in court documents only as ``C.F.,'' was 4 and 5 years old when Edgin molested her between November 2017 and August 2018, prosecutors said.

Riverside police initiated an investigation in early September 2018 after receiving a report that the girl had been sexually assaulted. Police said the child was left at the unlicensed daycare operated by Edgin and his family multiple times over a two-year period.

City News Service contributed to this report.