WWW- Former cheerleading coach Christopher Scott Borum is expected to serve at least 10 years in prison without the possibility for parole after being convicted Monday of molesting young girls he coached at a private gym in Paulding County.

Borum, 24, was convicted on 10 of 23 counts related to molesting members of the Fantasy All Stars cheer team at Georgia Cheerleading Academy in Dallas, said Paulding District Attorney Drew Lane. Sentencing is set for Sept. 13, Lane said. Borum also faces molestation charges in Cobb County, where he coached at a Marietta gym after being fired from Georgia Cheerleading. An indictment on those charges is pending, said Kathy Watkins, spokeswoman for Cobb District Attorney Pat Head.

The felonies Borum was convicted of in Paulding include aggravated child molestation, for engaging in sodomy with at least two underage girls. That charge provides for a minimum of 10 years in prison without parole and a maximum sentence of 30 years. Borum also was convicted of child molestation and aggravated sexual battery.

Jurors deliberated for eight hours over two days after listening to testimony by 13 underage girls and others during a two-week trial.

“The victims in this case were members of the Fantasy All Stars,” Assistant District Attorney Rusty Knox told the jury at the beginning and end of the trial. “They were Scott Borum’s fantasy pool that he could dip into to satisfy his sexual desires.”

Girls who were as young as 14 when they were molested testified that Borum had groped them during practices. Two said Borum singled them out for sex.

One girl, who was 14 at the time and too young under Georgia law to consent to sexual activity, said she accepted Borum’s overtures because she was curious about sex.

“At first we would just talk and kid and stuff,” the girl testified, explaining how a yearlong affair with her coach began. Soon, she said, Borum began fondling her and pressured her for oral sex and intercourse and to pose for provocative photographs.

The girl said she began meeting Borum late at night at an elementary school, behind an area business and at the gym where Borum oversaw competitive cheerleading teams.

Because of their ages, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution is not identifying the girl or any of the victims in the case.

Three girls testified in closed court about alleged sexual encounters with Borum that occurred in Cobb County when he coached at the Southern Cheerleading Academy in Marietta.

The testimony about the Cobb allegations was allowed by Superior Court Judge Tonny S. Beavers, who ruled that the untried charges could be presented to the jurors for their use in deciding whether the allegations showed a pattern of behavior by Borum that supported the charges he faced in Paulding.