Sentencing is scheduled for May 9 for a 47-year-old man convicted of sexually assaulting two girls while living with their family in Costa Mesa.
Nelson Anibal Saavedra was convicted Monday of molesting the girls from 2015 through 2022, according to court records.
The oldest girl told investigators she was assaulted starting when she was 6 until she was 12 years old when a classmate “nearly dragged” her to their principal’s office to report the alleged abuse, Deputy District Attorney Alyssa Marie Staudinger said in her opening statement of the trial…