CALIFORNIA
Santa Cruz Sentinel
By Cathy Smith
sentinel staff writer
After deliberating for less than a day, jurors Monday found a former Watsonville pastor and school district employee guilty of the four counts of child molestation.
Steven Montez Martinez, 49, of Watsonville faces from probation to five years in prison when sentenced Jan. 20, prosecutor Dave Sherman said.
Martinez showed little emotion as he left the courtroom late Monday, though his family members cried as they embraced one another.
Martinez was arrested in November 2004 and charged with four incidents of molesting a 14-year-old girl in late 1993 or early 1994, while she was a freshman at Aptos High School.