Torres

FACTS

Defendant and appellant, Eloy Jaime Torres, Sr., was tried for various crimes

related to several incidents of sexual activity with his teenage daughter, Jane Doe, which

resulted in her pregnancy and an abortion.

Torres’s parents, Aurora and Arturo, adopted Doe when she was three months old

because they believed Torres and Doe’s biological mother were not responsible enough

to raise a baby. Torres and Doe’s biological mother had lost other children in

dependency.

After the adoption, Torres and Doe’s biological mother moved to Oklahoma,

where they lived for over a decade and had other children. During that period, Doe had

little contact with Torres or her biological mother. Eventually they returned to California,

where they lived at Aurora and Arturo’s house for about two years before moving into an

apartment.

When Doe was about 14 or 15 years old, Torres and Doe’s biological mother

divorced, and Torres moved in with his parents and Doe at their home in Indio. Torres

initially slept in the living room, but later moved to the back yard. At first, Doe did not

want any sort of relationship with Torres.

During her sophomore year of high school, Doe was suspended…