Former UCI student faces 94 years to...

Former UCI student faces 94 years to life

A Superior Court Judge on Thursday found a former UC Irvine

student guilty of sexually assaulting and torturing a 15-year-old

girl he met on the Internet.

Brian Dance, 21, of Newport Beach was convicted of three counts of

forced penetration, one count of torture and one count each of

robbery and criminal threat. He faces 94 years to life in prison.

Prosecutors said he bound the victim with duct tape and carved a

swastika on her cheek.

Dance, then a UCI sophomore, arranged to meet the victim at the

Block at Orange, investigators said. He took her to an empty parking

lot on campus and assaulted her with his belt and other objects for

more than two hours.

Police arrested Dance on Dec. 23, 2001, with the help of a decoy

-- a friend of the victim, who arranged with Dance online to meet him

at the Block.

The victim testified in the nonjury trial. He had waived his right

to a jury trial.

Deputy Dist. Atty. Steve McGreevy said “justice has been served”

for the victim.

“She was able to articulate to the judge what he did to her,” he

said.

Dance is scheduled to be sentenced on Sept. 26.