A Denver jury on Tuesday convicted a former youth soccer league organizer , prosecutors say.
Andres Fuerte Gaspar, 51, was found guilty of several felony counts, including kidnapping, child enticement, sexual assault on a child and a pattern of child sex abuse.
“Gaspar met both (his) teenage victims through his soccer league in 2014, hiring them to help clean soccer fields but later taking them to his apartment where the assaults occurred,” the city’s district attorney’s office said in a news release.
In the apartment, an arrest affidavit said, Gaspar told a 13-year-old boy the two were going to play poker. He told the child that “if he won he would get $10, but if he lost than he, the suspect, would get to touch him for a minute,” the affidavit said.
Gaspar was listed as the “registered agent” for Universal Soccer League in Denver and was described as the league president.
Gaspar will be sentenced on Jan. 29.
Jesse Paul: 303-954-1733, jpaul@denverpost.com or @JesseAPaul
