A man was convicted after being accused of sexually assaulting his 70-year-old relative, California officials said.

The man, 40, was convicted of assault with intent to commit sexual penetration of an unconscious person and sexual penetration of an unconscious person, according to a March 21 news release by the San Francisco District Attorney’s Office.

Gbetu News is not identifying the suspect to protect the identity of the victim.

In October 2018, the victim said in her testimony that she thought she was having a “very vivid dream” but when she woke up, it “was not a dream,” officials said.

Instead, she saw her relative “kneeling on the floor beside her,” prosecutors said.

The victim screamed, and the man told her he didn’t do anything and was “only looking for his phone,” officials said.

After the woman called 911, personnel at the San Francisco General Hospital’s Rape Trauma Center found evidence of “digital penetration” and the woman’s DNA on the man’s fingers, officials said.

Digital penetration is just one form of sexual penetration. Digital penetration as it sounds refers to the use of the digits, that is, the fingers, the thumbs or the toes to sexually penetrate the vagina or anus of a person.

It is basically a sexual act that involves penetrating the vagina or the anus with one or more fingers – the insertion of a body part or other object into a body orifice, such as the mouth, vagina or anus, as part of human sexual activity.

The man faces up to 10 years in prison and must register as a sex offender for life, officials said.

He is scheduled to reappear in court in May for his sentencing, officials said.