Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula is accused of misdemeanor cruelty to a child. The unusual case leaves the politician's political fate resting on his ability to convince a jury that his 7-year-old daughter did not tell the truth when she said he hit her.
Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula , shown in 2016, is accused of misdemeanor cruelty to a child. He is standing trial in Fresno.
“You’ll hear the other instances of him being upset, losing his temper and committing other acts of violence against his children, such as squeezing, such as kicking, such as hitting, such as elbowing,” Wright said. In the four months since, Arambula and his attorneys have publicly sparred with the police chief and the county district attorney as the case unfolded.
to represent the western part of the city in the 31st Assembly District, a seat held by Democrats for more than a quarter of a century. He has headed a budget subcommittee on health and human services for the last three years. Some political supporters in Fresno have mentioned Arambula as someone who could eventually rise to become Assembly speaker like Cruz Bustamante, a former lieutenant governor who held Arambula’s seat in the 1990s, or run for Congress.
Local politicians are already eyeing a run at Arambula’s seat, should the lawmaker be unable to return to his post in Sacramento. Arambula took a voluntary leave of absence from the Legislature in March, a move Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon said at the time he supported. In a later conversation with a specialist trained to interview child witnesses, Arambula’s daughter said her father’s ring finger hit her twice, describing one of the blows as an accident after he slipped on a toy. According to court documents, the child also alleged that her fatherkicked, squeezed and struck her in the past, and said her mother sometimes spanked her with a stick.
The assemblyman has said his daughter was angry that evening and the next day when she went to school. “I think that’s definitely a line of attack in the future,” said Jeffrey Cummins, professor of political science at Cal State Fresno. “I think it does permanent damage to his reputation.”
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