People v. Ives CA2/3

BACKGROUND

I. The sexual abuse

Ives sexually abused his daughter over a period of five or six years when she was between the ages of five and 11 years old. The abuse occurred approximately one to three times per week or five times per month while daughter was in Ives’s care and mother was at work. When daughter was five to six years old, Ives would place his hands under daughter’s clothes and insert his fingers into her vagina and touch her chest. On other occasions, Ives would force daughter to kneel in front of him and touch his penis while he placed his hands in her pants and touched her vagina. Daughter said this caused pain and “felt like scratching.” Daughter would tell Ives to stop, but he refused. Ives also forced daughter to perform oral sex on him. When daughter was seven years old, Ives would put his fingers in daughter’s vagina and force her to touch his penis and perform oral sex. On one occasion, Ives forced daughter to kneel in front of him while he sat on the couch and perform oral sex on him until he ejaculated into her mouth. This made her gag and feel disgusted.

2 When daughter was eight years old, the sexual abuse escalated. While daughter was in bed,…