P. v. Alavez CA5
Appellant/defendant Sarai Alavez was convicted after a jury trial of multiple felonies including torture, with enhancements for personal use of a deadly or dangerous weapon, and personal infliction of great bodily injury on a child under the age of five years. The victim was Alavez’s two-year-old daughter, B. Alavez and her two daughters had been living with Haroon Pimentel and Kathy Yoval. According to Alavez, Pimentel and Yoval chastised her for not sufficiently disciplining the two children, and thereafter committed numerous horrific acts of “discipline” on B., and inflicted grievous injuries on B. and less serious injuries on B.’s older sister. Alavez admitted that she did not intervene or protect the children, and participated in these acts. Alavez was sentenced to life in prison with the possibility of parole for torture plus seven years for the enhancements.
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