People v. Christopher O. CA6

I. BACKGROUND

The facts recounted below are drawn from the record, including the evidence presented at Defendant’s trial, which is viewed in the light most favorable to the verdicts in the trial. (See People v. Banks (2015) 61 Cal.4th 788, 795.) A. The Charges In May 2019, Defendant was charged with four counts of child sexual abuse against his daughter, C.D. In particular, Defendant was charged with two counts of oral copulation or sexual penetration with a child under the age of 10, one count of sexual intercourse or sodomy with a child under the age of 10, and one count of attempted aggravated sexual assault by sodomy of a child under the age of 14 in violation of sections 269 and 286 of the Penal Code. (Subsequent undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.) B. The Evidence Presented at Trial At trial, the prosecutor’s primary witness was C.D. C.D testified that Defendant was her father but he separated from her mother when she was five or six years old. Afterwards, C.D. lived with her mother and every other weekend stayed with her father. Defendant, who is six feet five inches tall and weighs 280 pounds, began sexually abusing C.D. shortly after separation, when…