The San Bernardino County District Attorney’s Office has filed charges against George Holcomb (Age 69 of Eastvale) for sex with a minor in San Bernardino.


CASE SYNOPSIS

On Saturday, March 13, 2021, deputies from the San Bernardino County Sheriff’s Department began an investigation into a lewd act on a child. During the investigation, George Holcomb was arrested.

After reviewing this case, our office has filed charges against Mr. Holcomb for violating the following sections of the California Penal Code:

Penal Code Section 288.7(b) – Oral Copulation Or Sexual Penetration With Child 10 Years Old Or Younger (Felony)
Any person 18 years of age or older who engages in oral copulation or sexual penetration, as defined in Section 289, with a child who is 10 years of age or younger is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term of 15 years to life.

(2 COUNTS)

Penal Code Section 288(a) – Lewd Act Upon A Child Under Age 14 (Felony)
Except as provided in subdivision (i), a person who willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, including any of the acts constituting other crimes provided for in Part 1, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child who is under the age of 14 years, with the intent of arousing, appealing to, or gratifying the lust, passions, or sexual desires of that person or the child, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for three, six, or eight years.

Penal Code Section 311.11(a) – Possession Of Child Or Youth Pornography (Felony)
Every person who knowingly possesses or controls any matter, representation of information, data, or image, including, but not limited to, any film, filmstrip, photograph, negative, slide, photocopy, videotape, video laser disc, computer hardware, computer software, computer floppy disc, data storage media, CD-ROM, or computer-generated equipment or any other computer-generated image that contains or incorporates in any manner, any film or filmstrip, the production of which involves the use of a person under 18 years of age, knowing that the matter depicts a person under 18 years of age personally engaging in or simulating sexual conduct, as defined in subdivision (d) of Section 311.4, is guilty of a felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison, or a county jail for up to one year, or by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), or by both the fine and imprisonment.

Penal Code Section 313.1(a) – Exhibiting Harmful Matter To A Minor (Misdemeanor)
Every person who, with knowledge that a person is a minor, or who fails to exercise reasonable care in ascertaining the true age of a minor, knowingly sells, rents, distributes, sends, causes to be sent, exhibits, or offers to distribute or exhibit by any means, including, but not limited to, live or recorded telephone messages, any harmful matter to the minor shall be punished as specified in Section 313.4. It does not constitute a violation of this section for a telephone corporation, as defined by Section 234 of the Public Utilities Code, to carry or transmit messages described in this chapter or to perform related activities in providing telephone services.


CASE INFORMATION

DA Case Number: 2021-00-0012477
Court Case Number: FSB21001032
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