People v. Hernandez CA2/6

Facts and Procedural History On January 10, 2011, the Pasadena Police Department investigated a report that appellant had molested his stepdaughters, M. and T. M. told the police that, in 2005 when she was 10 years old, appellant called her into his bedroom, sat her on 1 All statutory references are to the Penal Code unless otherwise stated. his lap, and put his hand down her pants. Appellant inserted his finger into M.'s vagina and moved it around. Exposing himself, appellant grabbed M. and tried to get her to touch his penis. In 2006, appellant dropped M.'s mother off at work, stopped the car, and tried to put his hand down M.'s pants. Appellant asked if she "wanted to touch his cock" and tried to get M. to touch his penis. M. ran into the house crying and asked her sisters what "cock" meant. Sometime between 2007 and December 2010, M. told her mother about the molestation and pled with mother not to do anything because appellant had threatened to call immigration. In January 2001, mother told a school counselor that M. had been molested. T., an older sister, was molested in 2000 at age 11. Appellant drove T. home from her father's funeral, stopped the car,…