A former Brooklyn middle-school janitor was convicted Tuesday of repeatedly raping and sexually abusing an eighth-grade girl, the district attorney’s office said.
The man, Ambiorix Rodriguez, 34, had been accused of sexually attacking the girl over the course of five months in 2010 and 2011 in the basement of the Middle School for Marketing and Legal Studies in East Flatbush, where he was the head custodian until his arrest in April 2011.
In the first episode, Mr. Rodriguez inappropriately touched the girl, who was then 12, prosecutors said. The next day, he repeated the offense, and over the next months he continued to grope and force sexual relations on the girl, often on a couch in the basement, as often as several times a week, according to prosecutors.
Mr. Rodriguez was convicted of four counts of predatory sexual assault against a child, two counts of second-degree rape and six cunts of second-degree sexual abuse.
He is to be sentenced Feb. 20. He has no prior record but faces a maximum sentence of life in prison.
