United States v. Tel Boam

I. Factual Background2

Boam married Melinda Scott in 2012, becoming the stepfather to Scott’s two children, including T.A. Between approximately 2012 and 2019, Boam and Scott lived together with their children.

1 Boam raises several other challenges to his convictions and sentence that are addressed in a memorandum disposition filed concurrently with this opinion. 2 Because we are reviewing for sufficiency of the evidence, we lay out the evidence in the light most favorable to the government. See United States v. Graf, 610 F.3d 1148, 1166 (9th Cir. 2010) (explaining the standard of review for challenges to the sufficiency of the evidence).

UNITED STATES V. BOAM 5

Scott testified at Boam’s trial that in the fall of 2019, she was searching through Boam’s iPhone without his knowledge when she noticed a phone application that she did not recognize. She clicked on the app and discovered thumbnail images with dates and times next to them. Scott could tell that the images were nude videos of T.A. in the master bathroom of their home. Scott confronted Boam about the videos, who told Scott that “it was a mistake” and that Scott “was making a big deal [out] of…