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Jeffrey Scott Kaplan, 69. (CREDIT: Lee County Sheriff’s Office) A 69-year-old man was found guilty of sexual battery. A jury returned a guilty verdict for Jeffrey Scott Kaplan, of Lehigh Acres, following a 2-day trial in Lee County. According to the State Attorney’s Office, the defendant was working at a massage therapy business in Fort Myers when he touched a client inappropriately, committing sexual battery. The victim demanded he stop and quickly left. Kaplan will be sentenced on June 5.