Snyder

Following a jury trial, appellant Alvin Thomas Snyder was convicted of two counts of inducing a child to engage in a lewd or lascivious act (counts 1 & 2/Pen. Code, § 266j); two counts of forcible rape (counts 3 & 6/§ 261, subd. (2)); two counts of committing a forcible lewd act upon a child (counts 4 & 7/§ 288, subd. (b)); and one count of genital penetration with a foreign object (count 5/§ 289). Additionally, the jury found true the allegations that with respect to counts 4 and 7, appellant used the fear of immediate and unlawful bodily injury to perpetrate the crimes and caused bodily injury to the child victim in their commission (§§ 1203.066, subd. (a)(1) & (a)(2)). The trial court sentenced appellant to eighteen years in prison which included a middle term sentence of six years on count 3 (forcible rape) as the principal term plus two consecutive middle term sentences of six years each on counts 5 and 6 (penetration with a foreign object & forcible rape). The court imposed middle term six-year sentences on counts 1 and 2 (inducing a child to engage in a lewd or lascivious act) to run concurrently with each other and all other terms. Sentence on the remaining counts…