People v. Crume

Opinion

PUGLIA, P. J.

Defendant appeals after jury conviction of violation of Penal Code sections 288 (two counts) 1 and 288a (one count). 2 In respect to the latter crime, it was also charged and found by the jury that defendant’s victim was under the age of 14 and he, the defendant, was more than 10 years her senior. The victims of the offenses, Tanya and Tamara Grume, are defendant’s adoptive daughters. They were 13 and 12 years old respectively in February 1974.

Tanya testified to a single incident of sexual molestation occurring during the month of February 1974 in which her father…