People v. Scott CA4/3

FACTS

I.

SCOTT’S HISTORY WITH THE VICTIMS’ FAMILY

Scott’s relationship with the victims’ family began decades ago. Scott and the victims’ paternal grandfather (the grandfather) grew up in

1 All further statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise noted.

2 Michigan, where the two became friends and remained close into adulthood. The grandfather married and had a son (the father), who described Scott as “kind of like a family uncle.” In the early 1990’s, the grandfather moved the family to California, and Scott, then in his 30’s, came with them. When the father grew up, he married and had six children, including the younger girl and the older girl. Scott was a part of the children’s lives “the whole time they were growing up.” By 2011 or 2012, Scott and the father’s family were living on the same property, owned by the paternal grandmother and grandfather. The father’s family lived there, on and off, for six or seven years, although the record does not reflect when they first moved in. On that property, the father’s family lived in the main house, the grandparents lived in a smaller house in the back, and Scott lived in a trailer, also in the back. The property…