People v. Villalobos CA4/2

CourtCalifornia Court of Appeal
DecidedMay 9, 2023
DocketE078380
StatusUnpublished

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Filed 5/9/23 P. v. Villalobos CA4/2 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115.

IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA

FOURTH APPELLATE DISTRICT

DIVISION TWO

THE PEOPLE,

Plaintiff and Respondent, E078380

v. (Super.Ct.No. INF1701501)

HILARIO VILLALOBOS, OPINION

Defendant and Appellant.

APPEAL from the Superior Court of Riverside County. Charles J. Koosed, Judge.

Affirmed with directions.

Robert L.S. Angres, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and

Appellant.

Rob Bonta, Attorney General, Lance E. Winters, Chief Assistant Attorney

General, Charles C. Ragland, Assistant Attorney General, Eric A. Swenson, and

Marvin E. Mizell, Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

1 A jury convicted Hilario Villalobos of committing numerous sex offenses against

his minor nephew. On appeal, Villalobos contends that the trial court erred by not

instructing the jury on child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome and that defense

counsel provided ineffective assistance by not objecting to an amendment to the

information after the prosecution rested. He also argues that there are errors in the

sentencing minute order and the abstract of judgment. We correct those clerical errors,

but we otherwise affirm.

BACKGROUND

John Doe was born in January 2003. Villalobos was born in December 1976 and

is Doe’s great-uncle. Doe met Villalobos in 2014. Villalobos lived with Mary B. Doe

visited Villalobos on weekends.

In January 2018, Villalobos was charged by information with (1) two counts of

aggravated sexual assault by means of forcible oral copulation with a child under 14

years old (Pen. Code, § 269, subd. (a)(4), counts 1 & 4); (2) three counts of aggravated

sexual assault by means of sodomy with a child under 14 years old (Pen. Code, § 269,

subd. (a)(3), counts 2, 5, & 7); (3) two counts of aggravated sexual assault by means of

sexual penetration with a child under 14 years old (Pen. Code, § 269, subd. (a)(5), counts

3 & 6); and (4) one count of making criminal threats (Pen. Code, § 422, count 8).

(Unlabeled statutory references are to the Penal Code.) Count 7 was amended after the

prosecution’s case-in-chief to allege one count of sodomy by force on a minor 14 years

old or older. (§ 286, subd. (c)(2)(C) (section 286(c)(2)(C).)

2 Doe testified at trial, when he was 18 years old. Sometime around July 2015, Doe

spent the night at Mary’s and was going to sleep in the same bed as Villalobos. When

Doe got into the bed, Villalobos started touching him. Villalobos pulled down Doe’s

underwear, touched Doe’s penis, and rubbed Doe’s penis up and down. Doe described

the incident in detail.

One week later, Villalobos told Doe that he “couldn’t say anything because

something would happen.” Villalobos did not explain what he meant, but the threat

caused Doe to be fearful.

Doe did not tell anyone about the incident because he feared that adults would not

believe him. Doe did not go to Mary’s house to visit Villalobos again.

In mid-2016, Doe, his mother, and his stepfather moved into a two-bedroom

apartment in the city where Villalobos lived. Two months later, in October or November

2016, Villalobos moved into the apartment with Doe’s family. Villalobos spent his first

night at the apartment in Doe’s twin bed with Doe. Villalobos touched and sucked Doe’s

penis, licked and sucked Doe’s buttocks, and ejaculated. Doe described the incident in

detail. Doe did not tell anyone about what had happened because he was afraid that

Villalobos “would do something to” him.

Two days after Villalobos moved in, Villalobos and Doe switched bedrooms and

had separate beds. Villalobos continued to touch and to suck Doe’s penis approximately

three to four times per week. Villalobos also inserted his finger into Doe’s anus, made

Doe touch his penis, and put his penis in Doe’s mouth.

3 After living with Doe’s family for two months, Villalobos attempted to penetrate

Doe’s anus with his penis. Villalobos thereafter penetrated or attempted to penetrate

Doe’s anus with the tip or the head of his erect penis about once per week. Doe also

testified that Villalobos did not “get his penis inside of [Doe’s] butt.” Doe explained:

“He was never successful. Just the tip.”

Doe testified that the other sexual behavior continued at a rate of three to four

times per week throughout the period that Villalobos and Doe shared a room. Doe’s

attempts to push Villalobos away or to get away from Villalobos were mostly

unsuccessful, because Villalobos would push Doe down, overpower Doe, and force Doe

to submit.

In late July 2017, when Doe was a freshman in high school, Doe told a school

therapist that he felt unsafe at home and was suicidal. Doe told the therapist that he was

keeping a secret that involved a person in his family.

A law enforcement officer arrived at Doe’s residence later that day and took Doe

and his mother to the police station. Two officers interviewed Doe. Doe disclosed that

Villalobos had sexually abused him. Doe told the officers that among other things

Villalobos had penetrated Doe’s anus with the tip of his erect penis approximately four

times per week. Doe said that Villalobos would force him into the bed. Doe said that

Villalobos had last penetrated his anus with his penis one week earlier. Villalobos had

“just stopped” because that week Doe threatened to tell his therapist, whom Doe was

seeing because he was suicidal. Doe said that Villalobos first sexually abused him two

4 years earlier when Doe was visiting Villalobos at Villalobos’s house. Doe expressed

concern about something happening to Villalobos because Doe’s mother was not working

and Villalobos helped pay the rent.

After the interview, officers took Doe to a hospital, where a forensic medical

examination was conducted. Photographs of Doe’s anus were taken as part of the

examination. The photographs revealed that the entire surface of the anus appeared red

and irritated and that some tissue had an “increased area of vascularity” or appeared “a

little fuller.”

A follow-up examination was conducted approximately two and one-half weeks

later. Photographs of Doe’s anus were taken at that examination too. No redness,

irritation, or fullness of any tissue was depicted in the photographs taken at the follow-up

examination. The photographs depicted “a normal exam.”

Asked to assume that Doe had disclosed that he “had suffered from chronic

continuous forced sodomy ending approximately a week or more” before the first

examination, a forensic medical examination expert confirmed that the differences

depicted in photographs of Doe’s anus from the two examinations “could be consistent

with” Doe’s having been sexually abused.

The month after Doe reported the abuse, Denise Bowman conducted a second

forensic interview of Doe. The additional interview was conducted because Doe had

newly disclosed that Villalobos had used a gun. In the second interview, Doe told

Bowman that when Villalobos sexually abused him, Villalobos would display a gun by

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