People v. Mask CA3

FACTS

Defendant was born in 1949. There is conflicting information in the record as to the number of children defendant has. He had relationships with at least five women, and lived with them and their children at different times over the years. The victim, V.M., was born in 1997, and is the youngest of defendant’s biological children. She was in defendant’s sole custody from the age of two until 2010 when, a few days before her 13th birthday, she was removed from the home. The crimes against her occurred while she and defendant lived at the Colonial Apartments, the Gold River Apartments, and a townhouse on Hallelujah Court. The sexual abuse began when defendant and V.M. lived at the Colonial Apartments. When the first incident occurred, no one else lived with them.1 On that occasion, when V.M. was 10 years old, defendant picked her up from school and took her home. Defendant told V.M. to put away her things and go to his room. Defendant came into his room and told V.M. to take off her clothes and lay on the floor. She complied. Defendant took his clothes off, touched V.M.’s vagina with his penis, orally copulated her, and had intercourse. Defendant said nothing to her after he…