People v. Stelle CA2/2

FACTS AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

I. Facts

A. Defendant and his cousin Defendant was born in 1978. He completed 11th grade. He has access to a substantial sum of money held in a family trust. In 2005, defendant injured the frontal lobes of his brain in a motorcycle accident. S. Doe was born in 1998. She is defendant’s cousin. B. Defendant sexually molests his cousin for nearly a decade, despite knowing it was “wrong” to do so From 2003 (when S. Doe was five years old) until 2011 (when she was 13 years old), defendant sexually molested S. Doe every weekend. Initially, defendant would massage S. Doe’s chest and stick his finger in her vagina during the showers he insisted they take together. Defendant then progressed to

2 making S. Doe lay on the floor while naked, where he would rub his penis against her vagina until he ejaculated all over her chest. Defendant eventually started to orally copulate S. Doe and to demand that S. Doe orally copulate him, even though she would choke and gag as she did so. To ensure that S. Doe would not tell anyone else about what he called their “little secret,” defendant would buy S. Doe trinkets, candy, and items of clothing. The…