San Mateo Man Convicted of Molesting Young Girl While Living with Family

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A jury convicted a San Mateo man of five molestation charges Wednesday for assaulting a friend’s daughter repeatedly while he lived with the family for nine months, prosecutors said today.

Melfido Valdez-Orozco, 28, lived with the family from April 2013 until his arrest in February 2014, according to the San Mateo County District Attorney’s Office.

During that time, he repeatedly molested the girl. She was 6 years old when the molestation started and turned 7 during the period he was living with the family, prosecutors said.

The girl’s mother noticed her acting strangely and being in pain and she told her mother what happened. Her mother called police and he admitted the molestation after his arrest, according to prosecutors.

A jury deliberated for only three hours before finding him guilty of five felony counts of child molestation on Wednesday. He is scheduled to be sentenced on Aug. 6 and faces a maximum sentence of 57 years to life in prison, prosecutors said.

He remains in jail on $500,000 bail.