Not far from Disneyland in March 2008, Anaheim landlord Jose Agustin Lara Maya wanted more than rent from a family renting a garage room on his property.
Maya, then 71, wanted to have sex with the family's 11-year-old boy, named “O” in court records.
Under the ruse of using O to help translate documents for him, Maya managed to repeatedly separate the boy from his parents.
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Once alone, Maya stripped off O's pants and underwear, masturbated him,
asked him if girls made him hard and gave him $20 to keep his mouth
shut.
Several other assaults occurred before the alarmed fifth-grader told his mother
within a month of the crimes, according to court records. She wanted to go to police immediately, but O told her
he was worried about being blamed for the landlord's conduct and that
he might not be allowed to continue in school. He also worried that Maya
would kick the family off his property and they would be homeless. In
November, she decided to contact the cops and sex assault specialists
interviewed O on video.
In March 2009, police arrested Maya. During an interrogation he admitted that he'd fondled the boy's penis. His explanation? He said he it was just a case of curiosity.
A 2010 Orange County jury agreed with prosecutors and found Maya guilty of having “substantial sexual”
contact with the boy.
Superior Court Judge James Edward Rogan
sentenced him to a five-year prison term based on two felony lewd and lascivious act convictions.
Maya appealed, claiming that the jury should not have been allowed to
watch O's video interview because the kid's assertions weren't reliable
and that they also shouldn't have heard testimony from O's mother
because it violated the hearsay rule.
This week, a California Court of Appeal based in Santa Ana considered
Maya's complaints and ruled the neither argument was valid because the
boy and his mother were credible. What helped lead them to that
conclusion? According to an 11-page opinion written by Justice Eileen C. Moore, it was Maya's decision to ignore his right to remain silent during police questioning and give a confession.
Case closed.
–R. Scott Moxley / OC Weekly
CNN-featured investigative reporter R. Scott Moxley has won Journalist of the Year honors at the Los Angeles Press Club; been named Distinguished Journalist of the Year by the LA Society of Professional Journalists; obtained one of the last exclusive prison interviews with Charles Manson disciple Susan Atkins; won inclusion in Jeffrey Toobin’s The Best American Crime Reporting for his coverage of a white supremacist’s senseless murder of a beloved Vietnamese refugee; launched multi-year probes that resulted in the FBI arrests and convictions of the top three ranking members of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department; and gained praise from New York Times Magazine writers for his “herculean job” exposing entrenched Southern California law enforcement corruption.
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