Former Colorado school official acquitted of sex assault

A Denver jury on Tuesday acquitted a former Colorado school official of four counts of sexual assault of a child.

Denver District Attorney’s Office spokeswoman Lynn Kimbrough added in an email to The Associated Press that Jason Martinez still faces two counts of assault against two men in an unrelated case. He is out on bond and scheduled to appear in a Denver court in August in that case.

Martinez was hired last year by New Mexico’s largest district despite being charged with sexually abusing two young boys. The outcry over the hiring led Albuquerque’s superintendent to resign. Martinez quit.

The proceedings that ended in acquittal Tuesday were the second for Martinez in the case involving the boys after a mistrial was declared last year.