June 23, 2016
For Immediate Release
According to the State Attorney’s Office:
A Bay County jury of four women and two men convicted Robert Tony Miniaci, 30, on Thursday of numerous counts of lewd or lascivious battery on a 15-year-old girl.

Assistant State Attorney Christa Diviney proved to jurors during the three-day trial that Miniaci, of Springfield, initially contacted the victim through social media, then engaged in sexual intercourse with her multiple times in November and December 2014.

Miniaci was found guilty as charged of five counts of lewd or lascivious battery and four counts of traveling to meet a minor to commit an unlawful sex act. He faces up to 135 years in prison when Circuit Judge Michael Overstreet sentences him July 21.

The case was investigated by the Springfield Police Department.