SANTA ANA – A 6-year-old boy in a videotaped interview shown to an Orange County jury told a social worker about a child-care worker putting his hands down the boy’s shorts.
The boy is one of two children Scott Andrew Christensen, 28, of Rancho Santa Margarita is accused of molesting between 2000 and 2006 when he was working at The Learning Connection, an after-school program hosted by Saddleback Valley Unified School District.
Christensen is charged with three felony counts of lewd acts on a child younger than 14 with sentencing enhancement allegations for substantial sexual conduct with a child and committing the sexual acts against more than one victim.
If convicted on all charges, the former day-care worker, who in 2008 was found guilty of two felony counts of molesting another 6-year-old boy while babysitting him at the boy’s home, faces a possible 45 years to life in state prison.
Deputy District Attorney Nagy Morcos played the videotape for jurors Wednesday in Superior Court Judge Gary Paer’s courtroom and rested his case in chief later in the day.
Christensen sexually assaulted the boy twice between September 2005 and August 2006 while students watched a movie, prosecutors say.
After the first incident, the boy, who was videotaped by social workers without his knowledge so he would speak freely, said he walked away after a couple of seconds. The child said Christensen also touched him under his clothes a second time.
“Now, can we get it over with?” the boy is seen saying on the video, uncomfortably recounting the events.
Between May 2000 and August 2004, prosecutors say, Christensen sat next to another boy in the day-care program during a movie with the lights out and put the victim’s hand down the front of the defendant’s pants.
Defense attorney Gary Pohlson, who begins presenting his case Thursday, said it is impossible for the incidents to have occurred when the two boys say they did because others were present at the day care at the same time.
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