A jury convicted a Virginia man of assaulting two young girls at two different Lancaster County homes more than 20 years ago following a three-day trial last month.
The jury found Jacob Lee Smyth, of Woodlawn, Va., guilty on Jan. 14 of two counts of unlawful contact with a minor, two counts of indecent assault of a person less than 13 years of age and two counts of corruption of minors.
Smyth, 45, assaulted the victims at two different county residences beginning around 2004, when he was in his early 20s.
One of the victims, now 30, testified during the trial that Smyth assaulted her at a residence in the 300 block of Little Britain Church Road when she was between the ages of 8 and 12.
A second victim, now 26, told the jury Smyth came home drunk in the middle of the night and assaulted her while she slept on the floor at a different home in the first block of Scheller Road in Providence Township. The victim would have been about 12 or 13 years old at the time.
The jury returned a guilty verdict after about half an hour of deliberation.
Judge Jeffrey Conrad, who presided over the trial, is scheduled to sentence Smyth at a later date.
Assistant District Attorney Fritz Haverstick prosecuted the case.
Pennsylvania State Police Trooper Brian McNally filed the charges.