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Coral Springs Masseur Found Guilty Of Sexual Battery

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CORAL SPRINGS (CBSMiami) –A jury found a Coral Springs massage therapist guilty of two counts of sexual battery after deliberating for just an hour and a half.

Michael Ster looked numb after the verdict was read.  His victim cried as she was comforted by her parents. Her year and a half long journey for justice is done.

"I'm just so thankful that they saw past his facade and that they actually heard the truth," she said. CBS4 News is not revealing her identity.

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Ster's stunned expression is quit different from his courtroom performance on Thursday. He admitted to the jury that he and the victim had a sexual encounter on his massage table. He said it's what she wanted.

"She had her eyes open," Ster told the jury. "She wasn't sleeping, she had kind of that "come hither look" relaxed, 'Here I am, I just took off all my blankets fro you.'"

The victim said she could hardly believe what she was hearing. "I was angry," she said. "I couldn't stop shaking my head! I was just furious."

Ster even described it to the jury as "awesome."

"It seemed like a pretty awesome encounter," he said.

"That leaves me at a loss for words," the victim said, "because that's just pathetic in every aspect, literally leaves me speechless, I have no words for that."

It's not so awesome anymore. Deputies cuffed Ster and emptied the belongs from his pockets, preparing to haul him off to jail.

"I'm just glad that he's going away," the victim said "and we're saving people from this happening to them too."

Ster will be sentenced on January 9th at 8:30 a.m. He could face up to 15 years in prison for each count.

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