The remains of Alycia Augusta Mesiti-Allen, 14 when she vanished in August 2006, are now in the hands of toxicologists and coroners. Since March, when cadaver-sniffing dogs found her body buried in the unkempt yard of her father's former Central Valley home, detectives have scoured for evidence from the girl's petite frame.
Those detectives say the clues point to her father, Mark Edward Mesiti, as a suspect in her death and say an arrest is imminent. With a lengthy criminal past, the 41-year-old was still granted custody of Alycia and her older brother in Santa Clara County Superior Court less than a year before the girl went missing.
The death of the smiling teen, who loved horses and Shakira, lays bare the intractable choices that family court judges face every day, but the tragic outcome has everyone who worked on Alycia's case looking back wondering what more could have been done. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.∼In Loving Memory
Alycia Mesiti-Allen
11/8/91 - 8/6
This would be your 25th birthday. How we would love to celebrate the gift of your life with you, face to face, but because a Family Court Judge knowingly sent you to live in danger and enabled your murderer, we must grieve your suffering as we appreciate the unique beauty you brought to our lives. You are forever loved and cherished. Your maternal family.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on Nov. 8, 2016
Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti's former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter's remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed "hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography," according to the prosecutor's office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
"Mesiti told the court he committed (unspeakable acts of horror) onto Alycia, many times over several different occasions," the prosecutor's office says. "He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia's death."
"Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old," the statement said. "He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles."
Mesiti pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I pray that God has a special place in hell for this man.
Those detectives say the clues point to her father, Mark Edward Mesiti, as a suspect in her death and say an arrest is imminent. With a lengthy criminal past, the 41-year-old was still granted custody of Alycia and her older brother in Santa Clara County Superior Court less than a year before the girl went missing.
The death of the smiling teen, who loved horses and Shakira, lays bare the intractable choices that family court judges face every day, but the tragic outcome has everyone who worked on Alycia's case looking back wondering what more could have been done. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.∼In Loving Memory
Alycia Mesiti-Allen
11/8/91 - 8/6
This would be your 25th birthday. How we would love to celebrate the gift of your life with you, face to face, but because a Family Court Judge knowingly sent you to live in danger and enabled your murderer, we must grieve your suffering as we appreciate the unique beauty you brought to our lives. You are forever loved and cherished. Your maternal family.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on Nov. 8, 2016
Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti's former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter's remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed "hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography," according to the prosecutor's office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
"Mesiti told the court he committed (unspeakable acts of horror) onto Alycia, many times over several different occasions," the prosecutor's office says. "He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia's death."
"Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old," the statement said. "He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles."
Mesiti pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I pray that God has a special place in hell for this man.
The remains of Alycia Augusta Mesiti-Allen, 14 when she vanished in August 2006, are now in the hands of toxicologists and coroners. Since March, when cadaver-sniffing dogs found her body buried in the unkempt yard of her father's former Central Valley home, detectives have scoured for evidence from the girl's petite frame.
Those detectives say the clues point to her father, Mark Edward Mesiti, as a suspect in her death and say an arrest is imminent. With a lengthy criminal past, the 41-year-old was still granted custody of Alycia and her older brother in Santa Clara County Superior Court less than a year before the girl went missing.
The death of the smiling teen, who loved horses and Shakira, lays bare the intractable choices that family court judges face every day, but the tragic outcome has everyone who worked on Alycia's case looking back wondering what more could have been done. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.∼In Loving Memory
Alycia Mesiti-Allen
11/8/91 - 8/6
This would be your 25th birthday. How we would love to celebrate the gift of your life with you, face to face, but because a Family Court Judge knowingly sent you to live in danger and enabled your murderer, we must grieve your suffering as we appreciate the unique beauty you brought to our lives. You are forever loved and cherished. Your maternal family.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on Nov. 8, 2016
Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti's former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter's remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed "hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography," according to the prosecutor's office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
"Mesiti told the court he committed (unspeakable acts of horror) onto Alycia, many times over several different occasions," the prosecutor's office says. "He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia's death."
"Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old," the statement said. "He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles."
Mesiti pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I pray that God has a special place in hell for this man.
Those detectives say the clues point to her father, Mark Edward Mesiti, as a suspect in her death and say an arrest is imminent. With a lengthy criminal past, the 41-year-old was still granted custody of Alycia and her older brother in Santa Clara County Superior Court less than a year before the girl went missing.
The death of the smiling teen, who loved horses and Shakira, lays bare the intractable choices that family court judges face every day, but the tragic outcome has everyone who worked on Alycia's case looking back wondering what more could have been done. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/mercurynews/obituary.∼In Loving Memory
Alycia Mesiti-Allen
11/8/91 - 8/6
This would be your 25th birthday. How we would love to celebrate the gift of your life with you, face to face, but because a Family Court Judge knowingly sent you to live in danger and enabled your murderer, we must grieve your suffering as we appreciate the unique beauty you brought to our lives. You are forever loved and cherished. Your maternal family.
Published in San Jose Mercury News/San Mateo County Times on Nov. 8, 2016
Alycia, was reported missing in August 2007. Her remains were located on March 25, 2009, buried behind Mesiti's former rental home in Ceres, California, from which he was evicted a few months after she disappeared, reports The Modesto Bee.
An autopsy found she died of acute drug intoxication with the presence in her body of opiates, morphine, amphetamine, methamphetamine and other drugs.
Mesiti had been awarded custody of his daughter less than a year before her death, even after a judge was made aware that in the seven years prior, the father had been convicted of state and federal charges that included drunk driving and bank fraud, reports The Mercury News.
Mesiti also had been charged with domestic violence and ordered to attend anger-management classes, and jailed for failing to attend drug- and alcohol- treatment programs, the newspaper reports.
Authorities who arrested Mesiti in Los Angeles when his daughter's remains were found alleged that he was operating a meth lab, and he was convicted in 2011 of manufacturing meth.
Upon his arrest they also recovered several computers, hard drives, DVDs, CDs and other digital media that showed he possessed "hundreds of thousands of images involving child pornography," according to the prosecutor's office.
Mesiti was charged with murder with special circumstances in the death of Alycia, along with 48 other felony sexual assault charges.
"Mesiti told the court he committed (unspeakable acts of horror) onto Alycia, many times over several different occasions," the prosecutor's office says. "He admitted having given Alycia drugs on each occasion to make her unable to resist his attacks. Mesiti also admitted that his administration of those drugs caused Alycia's death."
"Finally, Mesiti admitted taking many sexually explicit photographs of his daughter Alycia and two other minors under 18 years old," the statement said. "He also said he molested the two other minors while he lived in Los Angeles."
Mesiti pled guilty to avoid the death penalty. He has been sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
I pray that God has a special place in hell for this man.
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