People v. Sanchez CA4/3

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

Defendant does not dispute the sufficiency of the evidence to support the jury’s verdicts and findings. Consequently, only a brief summary of the trial testimony is necessary. The victim was born in 2000. Defendant and the victim’s mother married in

2 2007. At the time, the family lived in Corona. On one occasion, defendant placed his hand under the victim’s clothes and rubbed her vagina for approximately one minute. The family moved to Santa Ana. The victim testified that after the move, defendant placed his hand inside her clothes and rubbed her vagina on five or six occasions. Once or twice, he also inserted his finger into her vagina. One of the penetrations occurred after defendant returned from a church retreat. The mother learned of the molestations after her daughter complained of vaginal pain. The amended information charged defendant with committing count one between January 2006 and the end of December 2007. Counts two and three were each alleged to have occurred between January 1, 2008 and September 29, 2010. While discussing jury instructions, the court commented that the Use Note for the standard instruction on continuous sexual…