In a revelation of familial betrayal, 58-year-old Antonio Mandilag Oliveros has been condemned by a jury for perpetrating long-lasting and heinous sexual assaults against a minor family member, beginning at the tender age of second grade per the San Mateo County District Attorney's Office.
Yesterday, Antonio Oliveros (58) was found guilty by jury for numerous counts of sexual assault against his minor daughter. The confidential victim in this case was first sexually assaulted by the Defendant when she was in 2nd grade. pic.twitter.com/L8qZdCtf19
— San Mateo County District Attorney (@SanMateoCoDA) November 22, 2023
According to Mercury News, Oliveros, a Daly City man now facing the possibility of life behind bars, inflicted a reign of terror upon the young girl, the abuse evolving from sinister night-time molestations to more grievous acts as she entered the fourth grade, and as the acts of maltreatment intensified, so too did the shackles of silence, fastened by the very grim promise of trips to the mall for her coerced compliance.
Breaking through the chains of manipulation, the survivor reported the abuse at age 13, even as two additional family members insidiously approached her, seeking a retraction of her accusations with hopes to spare Oliveros of imprisonment—yet, their schemes came undone as Oliveros had already confessed to his crimes in a police-orchestrated phone call. The jury, after only half an hour of deliberation, delivered their verdict, finding Oliveros guilty on two counts of forcible child molestation, two counts of oral copulation on a child, and seven counts of lewd acts with a child.
With justice's scales now tipped in favor of the victim, Oliveros faces a Dec. 13 hearing on aggravating factors and a review of a prior felony strike conviction while held on a sum of $2.8 million bail.
