P. v. Avelino CA2/2
A jury convicted Catalino Avelino of four counts of lewd or lascivious acts committed against children under age fourteen for sexually abusing three of his step granddaughters. (Pen. Code, § 288, subd. (a); all further statutory references are to this code.) The jury found true the allegation that these sex crime counts involved multiple victims. (§ 667.61.) The jury also convicted Avelino on three other counts of attempting to commit lewd acts against the girls. (§§ 664, 288, subd. (a).) The trial court sentenced Avelino, who was 65 years old when he was arrested for the offenses, to 18 years to life in prison. The sentence consisted of an indeterminate 15 year term on one completed count, similar concurrent terms on the other completed offenses, a consecutive middle term of three years for one of the attempt counts, and similar concurrent terms for the other attempts.
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