A 40-year-old man faces a Sept. 18 sentencing, after a Washoe District Court jury found him guilty of molesting a child as young as 5 years old. The jury found Brandon Christopher Smith guilty of three counts of sexual assault on a child younger than 14 and one count of lewdness with a child younger than 14. The Washoe County District Attorney’s Office says the case began in 2021 when the victim’s mother reported to the Sparks Police Department that her then 13-year-old daughter said Smith began molesting her at age 5 or 6. The victim confronted Smith and told him he had to tell her mother about it. Smith admitted to abusing the child in text messages to the mother and those were used during the three-day trial before Judge Egan Walker.