In re Anthony R. CA2/6

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Court of Appeal of CaliforniaJuly 7, 2015B254130California2,970 words

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FACTS

In July 2013, Anthony R. was 16 years old. A.S. (also referred to as "the child") was a nine-year-old girl and Anthony R.'s cousin. On July 16, 2013, A.S. was at her grandmother's house. She went into Anthony R.'s room, sat down on the bed, and watched T.V. Anthony R. came into the room and sat down on the bed next to her. A.S. testified Anthony R. kissed her and he "put his hands in [her] pants." The prosecutor asked her, "Can you tell us where he touched you." She said, "On my pee-pee." A.S. said her words "pee-pee" meant her "vagina." D.D., her mother, came into the room while A.S. and Anthony R. were "still on the bed." A.S. told her mother "he touched my vagina" and "he touched my pee-pee." D.D. testified that "Anthony's door was cracked open." She looked in and saw "Anthony and [her] daughter laying on the bed." When she pushed the door open, Anthony R. "stood up, the blanket fell onto the bed and he kind of hiked his shorts up a little bit and sat at the computer. . . . He had to hike [his shorts] up a little bit, like they were down." Her daughter's "pants were unbuttoned" and her "shirt was pulled up." Her daughter told her that "he touched…

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