Jurors found Terry Edward Keegan guilty of lewd acts with a child, child annoyance, sexual battery, battery and destruction of evidence.
A former Department of Homeland Security employee was convicted Thursday, March 23, of molesting two girls in Irvine, inappropriately touching a third girl and destroying evidence prior to his arrest., 59, guilty of a felony count of lewd acts with a child and misdemeanor counts of child annoyance, sexual battery, battery and destruction of evidence.
One of the girls lived with Keegan and his girlfriend, according to prosecutors, while the other two were her friends. One was 8 years old when the abuse began. In 2021, the girl who lived with Keegan and another friend, both of whom were 16 at the time, were hanging around Keegan during Spring Break, according to prosecutors. The friend told her mother that Keegan had made inappropriate comments, touched her buttocks and insisted on taking the girls shopping for bathing suits.
During her closing arguments earlier this week, Deputy District Attorney Juliet Oliver told jurors that Keegan groomed the girls in order to “normalize” his sexual behavior.Keegan denied the allegations, prosecutors said, but after being contacted by police began to routinely check a law enforcement database for any warrants taken out against him. Police later found a broken hard drive and broken USB memory sticks in a trash can outside Keegan’s home, prosecutors added.
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