A 68-year-old Albert Lea man has been convicted of sexually molesting a small child in 2012.

A jury found Carlos F. Fernandez, 68, guilty of two counts of felony second-degree criminal sexual conduct with a victim under 13 in Mower County District Court this week, while he was acquitted of one count of felony first-degree criminal sexual conduct.

According to the complaint, Fernandez, is accused of having sexual contact with the victim for whom he babysat in March 2012. Austin authorities were given information about the alleged abuse when the boy was 6 years old, but the abuse is alleged to have happened when he was 3 or 4 years old.

Parents of the child were apparently aware of the allegations a year before authorities received the information and did not allow Fernandez, who was living in Austin at the time time, to have contact with the boy.

The boy disclosed the alleged abuse when he refused to go to the defendant’s home. The victim’s mother said Fernandez admitted he has abused the boy on three occasions.

Fernandez is scheduled to be sentenced on July 13.