A Circuit Court jury found a 32-year-old photographer not guilty this morning of fondling two 10-year-old students at Lehua Elementary during picture-taking at the school last year.

The jury acquitted Gerard Fernandez Mueden of two counts of third-degree sexual assault.

The students told their parents and police that Mueden fondled them in the school cafeteria Sept. 22.

His lawyer told the jury Mueden could not have fondled the kids without the other students waiting in line for their turn to be photographed, another photographer, parent volunteers and teachers in the cafeteria witnessing it.