A jury last week convicted Bob Raines, the former superintendent of Shoreline Unified School District, of annoying or molesting a child after two former students testified that he touched them inappropriately while they were in elementary school.

Mr. Raines was arrested in June 2021 after a former Shoreline employee reported that she had seen him with his hand in her 9-year-old son’s pocket, stroking his leg near his groin. The boy, who is now 11,…