People v. Sparrow CA1/1

I. BACKGROUND

Defendant was charged in an information, filed November 8, 2012, with repeated acts of sexual molestation of a minor under the age of 14 years (Pen. Code, § 288.5, subd. (a)), five counts of oral copulation of a minor (Pen. Code, § 288a, subd. (b)(1)), five counts of sexual penetration of a minor (Pen. Code, § 289, subd. (h)), and a misdemeanor count of annoying or molesting a child (Pen. Code, § 647.6, subd. (a)(1)). The first 11 counts, which were alleged to have spanned the period from 2005 to 2011,

1 The abstract of judgment lists defendant’s first name as “John,” but he testified at trial that he spells it as “Jon.” involved a single victim, who will be referred to as Jane Doe 1. The misdemeanor count involved a different girl, Jane Doe 2. Jane Doe 1 was 20 years old at the time of trial in 2015. When she was eight years old, her family moved into a home located across the street from defendant’s home, and the two families eventually became well-acquainted. At some point, Jane Doe 1 began to visit defendant’s home on her own, where she would talk with defendant and his wife, swim in their pool, and receive help with her homework, among other activities. When…