People v. Tejeda CA4/3

FACTS

On December 20, 2011, defendant was 30 years old and lived in an apartment across the street from a church parking lot. That afternoon, six teenage boys, including 14-year-old Jose M., were skateboarding in the parking lot. While Jose M. and the other boys were skateboarding, they saw defendant standing on her balcony across the street. Defendant motioned with her hand toward the boys in a way that suggested she wanted them to do a trick with their skateboards. Jose M. thought defendant wanted one of them to ride their skateboard down the church stairs, which is a trick called an “ollie.” Some of the boys told another boy, Bryan T., to “show his private part” to defendant if he completed the skateboard trick. Bryan T. landed the trick and flashed his

1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code. Defendant challenges only her conviction on count 3. The jury also convicted her of committing sexual offenses against five other boys, consisting of two counts of lewd acts on a child under age 14, two counts of oral copulation on a child under age 16, and two counts of attempted oral copulation on a child under age 16. The jury also found she engaged in substantial sexual…