Overview
- A Plymouth County jury returned a mixed verdict after about two hours of deliberation at the end of a week-long trial.
- Steven Santos, 48, was found guilty of five counts of indecent assault and battery on a person 14 or older and one lesser count of assault and battery.
- He was acquitted on one additional count of assault and battery.
- Prosecutors said the teens were 15 and 16 and were assaulted at Santos’s Whitman home between May and August 2020.
- The case began with an October 2020 report by a former student, and a second teenager came forward during the police investigation; Santos had operated the Simply Circus training business in Newton and was charged in January 2021.