WASHINGTON (DC News Now) -- A jury found a former supervisor at a commercial custodial company guilty of first-degree sexual abuse on Friday, the U.S. Attorney's Office (USAO) for the District of Columbia announced.

The USAO said that the jury returned the verdict after a multi-day trial. Ovideo Flores-Lemus has sentencing scheduled for Nov. 14.

Evidence presented during the trial shows that between 2020 and 2021, Flores-Lemus "cornered the victim in the bathroom during her cleaning shift and forcibly raped her on three separate occasions."

Both of them were working for the same company, and officials said that Flores-Lemus was the victim's supervisor.

The jury convicted Flores-Lemus of two of those incidents.

Flores-Lemus faces a maximum sentence of 30 years for each sexual abuse cou

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