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Disclaimer: This story includes details of sexual abuse and may be triggering to some. His face lit up so much I remember thinking he looked like the sun. I was 4 at this time. He was so proud of me as he cheered me on. You caught a fish! He lifted me up and spun me around as I screamed in delight.
Mari, a woman who testified she was a victim of child abuse in Seaside. Vern Fisher - Monterey Herald. That the next door neighbor was the first to welcome her family into the first home they ever owned. That his garage had a couch, board games, and a bowl full of sweets for the neighborhood children. But there are details that are fuzzy. Although the Seaside Police Department looked into it and appeared to have forwarded the investigation to the Monterey County District Attorney, the case against Milton Pineiro somehow disappeared and nobody appears to know how, according to court documents and interviews with law enforcement officials. Most suffer a lifetime of emotional and psychological consequences. Mari sued Pineiro in civil court and hopes to inspire other people to come forward, victims who are able to seek charges in criminal courts if the statute of limitations has not run out. Pineiro, 70, denied doing anything to Mari, according to his deposition. The case was dismissed after the financial deal was reached.