A San Luis Obispo County jury found X-ray technician John Stephen O'Brien guilty of misdemeanor sexual battery against a patient at a local medical office. The jury convicted 47-year-old O'Brien, of misdemeanor sexual battery for willfully and unlawfully touching an intimate part of a patient against her will for the purpose of sexual arousal, sexual gratification, and sexual abuse while working as an X-ray technician at a local medical office. At trial, he again claimed her movements and body position were an invitation for the sexual touching. The jury also heard testimony from a prior victim who had been a patient obtaining an X-ray in 2016 in San Luis Obispo County. "Patients place extraordinary trust in medical professionals, and that trust is especially important when a patient is in a vulnerable position during treatment," Dow said.