P. v. Bratcher CA1/1
Jane Doe was a 33-year-old woman between seven and eight months pregnant, who had significant intellectual and learning disabilities. On March 5, 2017, she left a transitional housing shelter in Oakland where she lived to take a transit bus to Love Temple Missionary Baptist Church located on 85th Avenue and Birch Street in Oakland. The church has a parking lot located in the rear. Jane Doe is a member of the church who attended sporadically, but was known by a male deacon and a female member.
At 8:25 a.m. that day, Jane Doe exited the bus and walked across 85th Avenue. Because she was pregnant, she was feeling tired and her feet were swollen. As she was walking down the sidewalk on 85th Avenue near the church, defendant drove up in a white van with tinted windows. Through an open window, defendant said to Jane Doe, “ ‘You know me.’ ” Jane Doe had never seen him before, and feeling “[k]ind of scared,” she responded, “ ‘I don’t know you.’ ” Because Jane Doe was “
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