Mason City, IA- A North Iowa massage therapist will have to wait until at least Monday if he's innocent or guilty.
Steve page is charged with sexually abusing a minor at his office in Mason City.
Jurors are heading home for the weekend. They will continue their deliberation on Monday.
Friday morning the defense called two more of page's clients. Thursday the jury listened to testimony from several other female customers.
During the last day of Steve Page's trial, his clients are saying he acted almost too sensitive about keeping them comfortable.
More than a half dozen other clients also called him a professional, a quality page testifies police investigators working on the case did not have.
"They don't even understand a massage a therapeutic massage, ask me if I'd had oral sex with this young lady it'd be like my granddaughter lying on the table," he told the jury.
The defense also turned the courtroom into a massage office. Page demonstrated the same technique he calls a "swoop move" that he says he used on his accuser.
He says because oil and lotion covered the girl’s skin, his hand slipped and touched her groin area, or the outside of her genitals.
Prosecutors argued he confessed to police he penetrated the girl with his finger. He says his words were taken out of context. His complete statement was, “It may have, but it didn’t.”
Page maintained there was no penetration. After he stepped down from the stand prosecutors also called two rebuttal witnesses, former clients, with a different idea about his professionalism.
They both claimed page inappropriately touched their breasts during a massage.
One of those clients, Monica Nielsen, also lived in an apartment where page was the landlord. Page testified the city’s housing inspector told her that she needed to leave.
During closing arguments, the defense told the jury the state has no hard evidence other than the girl's testimony.
Prosecutors told the jury to remember the teen is troubled, making her the perfect victim for abuse.
The state also raised concerns about page bringing his accuser to a massage seminar as a subject for the massage sessions.
Page told the jury nothing happened there and it was a mistake bringing her along.
The defense also showed page had alibis on two nights his accuser said he bought her alcohol.
If jurors find him guilty, page faces a maximum of ten years in prison.
