Former youth-baseball coach convicted of child rape after being brought back from the Dominican Republic, where he will be returned following his sentence

A Suffolk Superior Court jury yesterday convicted a former Boston Broncos manager of raping a child he had first "groomed" for several years, the Suffolk County District Attorney's office reports.

Jose "Brujo" Ortega, 49, was convicted of two counts of rape of a child, one count of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14, one count of open and gross lewdness and one count of dissemination of matter harmful to minors, the DA's office says, adding a judge has yet to set a date for sentencing.

According to the DA's office:

At the time of his alleged offenses in Boston, Ortega was the manager of the Boston Broncos youth baseball league. Beginning in 2000, when the victim was as young as nine years old, the defendant groomed and abused him chronically over a period of approximately six years. According to prosecutors, one of the many ways in which the defendant secured the victim’s silence and compliance was by not playing him in games if he did not give in to the defendant’s sexual advances.

Ortega was indicted on the rape charges in 2014. However, while awaiting trial, he was detained by ICE and then deported to his native Dominican Republic because of his conviction in 2012 on a charge of child enticement. The DA's office reports the state was able to get him extradited back here for trial on the 2014 charges - and that he will be sent back to the Dominican Republic after he completes his sentence.