“My uncle touched me inappropriately,” the girl said.
When asked by Deputy Dist. Atty. Philip Wojdak why she also performed sexual acts on Allen, she testified, “Because he told me to.”
Two alleged molestations occurred in the summer of 2000 in the projection room at Glendale Adventist Medical Hospital when Allen was volunteering there for volleyball events, the girl testified.
The girl said Allen took her to his home on Chestnut Street in Glendale, where he showed her pornography on his home computer and later molested her.
But the girl recanted her testimony during cross-examination by Allen’s attorney Dana Cole. She testified that sexual assaults occurred only in his car and not inside his home. The girl had never mentioned abuse incidents in his car until Monday. She testified that she hadn’t remembered about the abuse until the trial.
The girl testified that she and her sister were molested by Allen. But she only found out about each other’s encounters with Allen after her sister asked her, “Have you ever been sexually abused?” while they were watching TV inside the bedroom they both shared, the girl testified. She and her sister cried together about the abuse they had experience, the girl testified.
“I never thought it would happen to her,” she testified. “I thought it was only me.”
The girl testified that she didn’t tell anyone about the molestation until she spoke to her sister.
“I was scared to tell anyone,” she said.
Soon after telling her sister about the abuse, the girl testified that she also told Allen’s stepdaughter about the molestation.
