A 48-year-old man was convicted Wednesday of molesting a girl in his family for about nine years when they lived in Santa Ana and Anaheim, starting when she was 4 years old.
When the victim was 15 years old she told a counselor at Saddleback High School in Santa Ana in May 2019 about the years of abuse from Felipe Horta Arriaga, prosecutors said in a trial brief.
The victim said she told her mother about the abuse when she was in first or second grade but her mother didn’t come forward because she feared the defendant, prosecutors said…