PROVIDENCE — After a second trial, a 20-year-old Woonsocket man has been convicted of molesting a 4-year-old girl in 2005.

Miguel A. Navarro, whose last known address was 100 Jeffers St., Woonsocket, was found guilty in Providence County Superior Court Wednesday of first-degree child molestation, following a seven-day trial, according to a news release yesterday from the attorney general’s office. The jury reached the verdict after deliberating about an hour and a half.

Prosecutor Maureen Keough presented seven witnesses, including the victim, her brother, who was 8 at the time of the incident, her mother, the doctor who treated the girl at Hasbro Children’s Hospital and Woonsocket police officers.

Keough presented evidence that on Aug. 23, 2005 Navarro approached the girl, who was almost 5 at the time, and her brother at a playground behind the children’s home. The children recognized Navarro as a resident of the neighborhood. Navarro asked if the children wanted to go and get some frozen lemonade.

The brother said he didn’t, but the girl went along. Navarro led her to Costa Park, about a five-minute walk from her home, and molested her in a shady, wooded area, according to the attorney general’s office.

When the brother arrived without his sister at the family’s apartment, the mother and father went outside to look for the daughter, and found her. As she was walking back to the apartment building, her mother described her as being in a state of shock, according to the ttorney general’s office.

The first trial, in September, ended in a hung jury and was declared a mistrial.

Navarro was originally charged as a juvenile, then waived out of Family Court and tried as an adult. After being indicted, Navarro was arraigned in Providence County Superior Court in May 2006. He was arrested on a domestic-assault charge and held without bail for 10 days in March 2007. That charge was later dismissed, and the court increased his bail to $75,000 with surety.

He was arrested again in Woonsocket, on April 8, 2008, for the alleged knife-point abduction and assault of an 11-year-old girl who was walking to school. Found to be a bail violator, Navarro has been held since April at the Adult Correctional Institutions in Cranston.

He has been remanded to the Adult Correctional Institutions to await sentencing on the conviction of the first offense and prosecution of the second alleged offense. The second alleged offense is still pending a grand jury investigation.

Judge Netti C. Vogel has scheduled a hearing for Monday on Navarro’s motion for a new trial.

mmckinne@projo.com