A 51-year-old lab manager at the University of Connecticut has been convicted on charges of sexually assaulting a disabled person, according to the district attorney in Middlesex, Massachsuetts.
Marcus Giotto, of Marlborough, Massachusetts, began working at UConn in 2006 as a postdoctoral student and was brought on as lab manager in 2008, according to a spokesperson for the university.
He's listed on the UConn Institute of Material Science website as manager of the Nuclear Magnetic Resonance facility in Storrs.
The Middlesex district attorney said Giotto was arrested in 2013 and was convicted last week on two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person with an intellectual disability.
He was placed on house arrest and GPS monitoring pending his sentencing March 2, according to the Middlesex district attorney.
Stephanie Reitz, a spokesperson for UConn, said Giotto is on administrative leave and declined to comment further citing a personnel matter.
