People v. Vera CA3

BACKGROUND

Defendant’s daughter testified that defendant began molesting her when she was four or five years old. The first incident involved oral copulation. Defendant pushed his daughter’s head to his penis, put his penis in her mouth, and ordered her to suck his penis. He slapped her when she bit his penis.

1 Undesignated statutory references are to the Penal Code.

2 Another incident occurred at her grandparents’ house when the daughter was seven years old. The daughter attempted to leave when defendant tried to take her pants off, but defendant grabbed her hair and yanked her back to him. He pulled her pants down, licked her vagina, and put his tongue in her vagina. His hands were on her thighs and he spread her legs. He also used his hands to open her labia. Another time when she was seven years old, defendant pulled his daughter’s pants down and licked her vagina and clitoris. Defendant orally copulated her on about 50 occasions. When the daughter was eight or nine years old, defendant rubbed her chest and vagina. Defendant committed that type of act on two to five occasions. After defendant had pulled her hair, the daughter did not resist because she was afraid defendant…