In his opening statement in the trial of Bostyon Johnson on charges that he sexually assaulted his half-brother, stepsister and cousin, prosecutor Peter McGuiness said Johnson "preyed on them" and "did evil things to them for his own sexual gratification.
McGuiness said the three victims "had to live with the shame and embarrassment" of being molested and asked jurors to hold Johnson accountable for his actions.
McGuiness said Johnson's family life is complicated because two of the alleged victims are his half-brother, identified in court documents as John Doe, and his stepsister, Jane Doe 2, and they became Johnson's stepchildren when he married their mother, Robin Johnson, who previously had been his stepmother.
McGuiness said Johnson's biological father and Robin Johnson took him into their home in Oakland in , when he was Bostyon Johnson later formed a relationship with his stepmother and eventually they got married after his father found about the relationship and left their house.
The charges against Johnson include oral copulation with a child under the age of 14, lewd acts with a child and continuous sexual abuse on the three alleged victims. McGuiness said when Bostyon Johnson's father left and he married his stepmother, "He became the man of the house and had constant access to the other children.
