P. v. Monarca CA2/6
Jose Eduardo Monarca appeals the judgment entered after he pleaded guilty to continuous sexual abuse of a child under the age of 14 (Pen. Code, § 288.5, subd. (a)), committing a forcible lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 (§ 288, subd. (b)(1)), penetration of a child with a foreign object (§ 289, subd. (j)), and six counts of committing a lewd act upon a child under the age of 14 (§ 288, subd. (a)). Pursuant to a negotiated disposition, the trial court sentenced appellant to an aggregate term of 25 years in state prison.
Because appellant pleaded guilty prior to trial, the relevant facts are derived from the transcript of the preliminary hearing. Over the course of several years, appellant sexually molested five minor children with whom he lived. All five victims were under the age of 14 when the abuse occurred.
We appointed counsel to represent appellant in this appeal. After counsel’s examination of the record, he filed a brief raising no issues. On January 21, 2020, w
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