Have police found the body of missing teen Alycia Mesiti?

[cubby]

Seems like they have some fairly specific information from somewhere. Somebody had to tell them about doping her up and sexual abuse. Brother seems likely. Is there someone else close enough to this to tell other than Dad and Dad's girlfriend? I don't see them talking. And we've got nothing else on Brother except he's in the military.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

http://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article162222403.html
July 2017

Mark Edward Mesiti, who is accused of killing his daughter and burying her body in a Ceres home’s back yard, has decided not to legally represent himself in his capital murder trial.

The trial was scheduled to start last week in Stanislaus Superior Court. Mesiti, 49, chose to act as his own attorney in October 2015. The defendant was expected to question witnesses, present his arguments in court and participate in jury selection.

Mesiti changed his mind last week, asking the court for an attorney to represent him in the trial. Modesto defense attorney Martin Baker has been Mesiti’s advisory counsel in the murder case. The court has now appointed Baker as Mesiti’s defense attorney in the trial.
...

Prosecutors are seeking the death penalty. Mesiti is charged with murder and more than 40 counts of sexually abusing his daughter, as well as sexually abusing two other girls.

By the time Alycia’s body was found, her father and the rest of his family had moved to Los Angeles. There, he was arrested and later convicted in 2011 of manufacturing methamphetamine. Prosecutors here waited two years before Mesiti’s case in Los Angeles concluded, and he was returned to Stanislaus County to face charges in his daughter’s death.

Mesiti’s murder trial has been postponed before.

In April, the trial was postponed because a prosecution investigator discovered photos collected as evidence that had not been provided to the defense until March.

In January, the trial was postponed because the defendant, who was then acting as his own attorney, wasn’t given sufficient access to a writing surface to properly prepare his defense while in jail.

https://www.stanct.org/people-vs-mark-edward-mesiti


PEOPLE VS. MARK EDWARD MESITI

Case Number:1457251
Charges: Penal Code §187(a)
Bail Amount:No Bail
Deputy District Attorney:Annette Rees
Defense Attorney(s):Martin Baker
Next Court Date:
The next court date will be August 28, 2017 at 1:30 p.m. for Jury Trial. The hearing will take place in Department 1 of the Superior Court of California, County of Stanislaus, located at 800 11th Street, Second Floor, Modesto, CA. Judge Dawna Reeves presiding.

Case File Date: Thursday, June 4, 2009

[doublepost=1508335028,1505057165][/doublepost]October 18, 2017
http://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article179317046.html

After just a few days of testimony in his murder trial, Mark Edward Mesiti on Tuesday pleaded guilty to all charges involved in the drugging, sexual abuse and killing of his teenage daughter, Alycia Mesiti.
[...]
Mesiti, 49, was convicted of murder and more than 40 counts of sexually abusing his daughter, as well as sexual abuse charges involving two other girls identified as Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2 in court documents. Jane Doe 1 was 8 years old when she was sexually abused, authorities said, and Jane Doe 2 was 16 and 17 when she was sexually abused. Both unnamed girls were abused in Los angeles.
[...]
Judge Reeves recited in court each of the charges listed on Mesiti’s criminal indictment, along with every enhancement added to the charges. Each time the judge recited a criminal charge, Reeves asked the defendant for his plea. Mesiti pleaded guilty 49 times; the process took about 45 minutes.

The District Attorney’s Office also wrote an allocution statement listing in explicit detail every act of sexual abuse he committed on his daughter and the two other girls. Prosecutors required Mesiti to read this statement in court admitting he committed these acts of abuse in order to get his deal to avoid trial and a possible death sentence.
[...]

Sentencing on November 28.

 

[Norcal Skim]

They must have a handshake deal that if he pleaded guilty he won't get the death penalty. A guy like this doesn't suddenly have remorse, a guy like this only looks to save his own skin. Fucking disgusting filth.

 

[Muriel Schwenck]

http://www.modbee.com/news/local/crime/article181600641.html

[...]
now the defendant wants to withdraw his plea and seek a new trial.

Earlier this month, Mesiti stunned almost everyone involved in his case when he informed the prosecution he was willing to plead guilty to all his charges in exchange for a sentence of life in prison without the possibility of parole.
[...]
After Mesiti pleaded guilty and a Nov. 28 sentencing hearing was scheduled, Chief Deputy District Attorney Annette Rees was skeptical of his sudden offer to plead guilty. Rees, who prosecuted the case through several years of delays, has called the defendant a “highly manipulative, evil man.”

“While not surprised that the defendant would attempt to delay justice and his sentencing, my thoughts are with the victims and their families, who must continue to endure this defendant’s tactics,” Rees said Sunday.
[...]

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Mark Edward Mesiti will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 death of his 14-year-old daughter Alycia Mesiti, and a lengthy list of sexual crimes against her and two Los Angeles girls, who were 8 and 16 at the time. Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Dawna Frenchie Reeves ruled on Friday that Mesiti cannot retract guilty pleas he entered on Oct. 16 nor receive a new trial and immediately sentenced him.

The aggravated sentence included a life in prison without the possibility of parole for the homicide in the commission of sex crimes, concurrent with a 30-years-to-life sentence for lewd acts with a minor, and a consecutive sentence of 234 years and eight months for repeated sex crimes against the three girls.

Judge Reeves said she would impose fully consecutive sentences "because of the repeated attack against multiple victims on multiple occasions. The defendant's attacks on three different young girls occurred over a long period of time, in different places, at different times and involved multiple independent and separate threats of harm."

She said Mesiti repeatedly rendered all three victims unconscious by administering intoxicants "displaying an extremely high degree of cruelty and callousness."

"Most disturbing to know, as an aggravating factor," said Judge Reeves, "is the fact that the defendant continued to prey upon children even after he literally molested his own daughter to death. He wrapped her in a plastic bag or baggie, left her to rot in his backyard ..." At that point, Mesiti's attorney, Steven O'Connor, interrupted the judge before she ended her sentence. She warned O'Connor to be quiet and finished. "Even after completing the horrendous act he continued to right on preying on children in the same manner that took the life of his daughter. This demonstrates the level of depravity and callousness and the lack of remorse that is shocking to the conscience. No child within the defendant's reach is safe at any time. The court found no mitigating factors."

Mesiti off to prison for life

Mark Edward Mesiti will spend the rest of his life behind bars for the 2006 death of his 14-year-old daughter Alycia Mesiti, and a lengthy list of sexual crimes against her and two Los Angeles girls, who were 8 and 16 at the time. Stanislaus County Superior Court Judge Dawna Frenchie Reeves...

www.cerescourier.com

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Excellent sentence - he'll die in jail.