MORGAN HILL — A jury fully acquitted a San Jose nonprofit director of sex abuse charges alleging he molested two girls when he was a youth pastor at a San Jose church, concluding a dramatic trial that saw him fight back by framing the allegations as a conspiracy by his accusers’ families to land a multi-million dollar legal settlement.

The verdict, handed down late Wednesday evening in the Morgan Hill courtroom of Judge Stuart Scott, exonerated 49-year-old Brett Bymaster of 10 felony sexual abuse charges. The case was built on allegations made by two sisters who claimed he serially groped and violated them when he was their youth pastor at The River church in San Jose between 2013 and 2019.

A courtroom gallery occupied by a dozen of Bymaster’s family and supporters collectively gasped an

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