PUBLIC SAFETY Gang-rape trial gets verdict second...

PUBLIC SAFETY

Gang-rape trial gets verdict second time

A jury on Wednesday convicted the son of a former sheriff’s

official and his two friends guilty on 15 of 27 counts of sexual

assault in the retrial of a high-profile gang-rape case.

Greg Haidl, son of former Orange County Assistant Sheriff Don

Haidl, and Rancho Cucamonga residents Keith Spann and Kyle Nachreiner

were accused of gang-raping an unconscious 16-year-old girl in

Haidl’s Corona del Mar home when they were teens and sexually

assaulting her with various objects. Each faces more than a dozen

years in prison in connection with the videotaped 2002 incident.

* A Corona del Mar woman is in jail awaiting sentencing after a

jury convicted her Thursday on three counts of attempted lewd acts

upon a child.

Victoria Hawlish, 41, was found not guilty of five charged counts

of lewd acts upon a child, but jurors found her guilty on the lesser

charges of attempted lewd acts on three of the counts. Hawlish was

accused of inappropriately touching a teenage girl who lived with her

in 2003 and faces up to two years, eight months in prison.