Krista Deans

Jury Reaches Guilty Verdict in Trial Against Weston Podiatrist

A jury has reached a verdict in the trial against a Weston podiatrist accused of forcing his babysitter to inappropriately touch him.

Dr. Augustine Boll was found guilty on one count of lewd and lascivious molestation on Friday. The jury deliberated for about three hours.

"I am thankful the jury came back with a just verdict and that my daughter has now been able to put this matter behind her," the victim's mother said.

During her closing arguments, prosecutor Kerrie Harper told jurors this case is crystal clear: "This was the defendant forcing -----, at 15 years old, to put her 15-year-old hand around his 45-year-old -----, twice."

The babysitter, now 19, claims Bollo forced her hand under a blanket, while they were on a couch inside his Weston home in 2012.

Investigators secretly taped a meeting between the babysitter's mother, Bollo and his wife, in an effort to get him to admit to the incident.

"The bottom line is, I am the adult and I just want to apologize for the whole situation, sincerely," Bollo said during the conversation.

During his closing arguments, Bollo's attorney called that controlled conversation a desperate reach by investigators: "This was a calculated attempt, a calculated attempt to get him to mouth a word that they were going to put a spin on and use it as a quote confession, just get him to apologize, don't tell him what it is."

After the verdict, his attorney said his main issue with the guilty verdict was a lack of evidence, "I thought the case was, frankly, a little thin."

Bollo's 14-year-old daughter, in the room on the night in question, testified she saw nothing unusual, contradicting the babysitter's allegation.

Bollo's defense was that the babysitter reached his way to tickle Bollo's son and incidentally touched him and the alleged crime never happened.

His sentencing is scheduled for July 8.

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