Notorious San Francisco parolee charged with sexually assaulting homeless teen girl
A 43-year-old parolee with an atrocious record of gun violence on San Francisco streets will appear at the city’s Hall of Justice today accused of stalking and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old homeless girl.
Prosecutors say Jesse Martin, 43, inveigled his way into the girl’s life by pretending to know her recently deceased father. He is then alleged to have plied her with alcohol and drugs, to the point of insensibility on several occasions, after which he forced himself on her, and also hit her.
The court was earlier told that the girl occassionally lived in group homes for vulnerable youth.
“[Martin] also unsuccessfully attempted to become [the victim’s] legal guardian in order to take custody of her from the housing facility” wrote assistant district attorney Michelle Brass in a motion to detain, “so that he could continue to sexually assault and molest her while she was in his care.”
Brass said she suspected Martin of engaging in this predatory behavior with other young girls in the Mission district and that the one-year-old sister of his most recent victim may have been targeted.
He will appear this morning for a preliminary hearing, at which a judge will determine whether there is sufficient evidence to send the case to trial.
Martin’s extensive rap sheet has to be seen to be believed. It features a 2015 conviction for assault with a firearm, followed by what prosecutors describe as “four more firearms-related contacts” between 2016 and 2019.
In June 2021 he opened fire on the streets of the Tenderloin on two successive days using a stolen Sig Sauer P220 .45 caliber handgun. Nine spent casings were recovered from the two crime scenes.
While on bail in those cases he was charged with assault with a firearm in 2022.
In a June 2023 plea deal Martin was handed a ‘paper commitment’ to state prison by Judge Victor Hwang, which amounted to little more than the nine or so months he already spent in custody.
Almost immediately after his 2023 release his parole was revoked for assault and battery and theft. In 2024 he was arrested for battery on police, burglary and petty theft.
Martin has pleaded not guilty to a battery of sex offenses.
He will appear today in Department 20 of San Francisco Superior Court for a preliminary hearing.
The case continues.
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