The traumatized son of a former county supervisor accused of molesting his daughter recounted the night of the incident in horrifying detail.
Robert Scrivner, 17, claimed to lawmakers on Tuesday his father Zack came home on April 23, 2024, took a cocktail of drugs then climbed into bed with his sister and did the “unspeakable.”
He alleged the girl ran downstairs at their Tehachapi house crying and told her what her dad had done to her before he and his brother confronted him and had to snatch a firearm off him.
Robert’s harrowing comments came as he and his mother Christina, who is estranged from husband Zack, presented a bill to Sacramento on reforming mental health diversions.
Zack, who was the county supervisor for Kern County, was granted the course — known as the “Epstein loophole” — meaning he could avoid jail time for the alleged crimes.
He was charged by the Attorney General’s office with child abuse and assault weapon charges, but no sex crimes. The AG took the case due to Kern’s DA being his aunt Cynthia Zimmer.
On Tuesday Robert said: “My sibling came downstairs crying to me that their own father had done the unspeakable.
“I then walked upstairs to confront my father, to protect my sibling, and in an altercation, I had to take a firearm away from him with my brother.
“After that, I had to have surgery on my right arm, after the physical abuse at my father’s hands,” he added.
Robert and his mother presented the bill alongside Lauren Skidmore of the Open Door Network and Republican state Senator Shannon Grove.
The bill hopes to change how mental health diversions are handled in the legal system.
Zack was charged with child abuse and assault weapon charges instead of sex crimes, and was granted a mental health diversion.
Some have credited Zack’s lack of jail time to an “Epstein” loophole. Grove is hoping reforms can help other victims get justice.
“Tell the truth, be honest, and you will be protected,” she said. “And that didn’t happen when her kids came forward.”
Robert’s mother says he should not have been granted diversion, and the medications didn’t stop him from committing crimes against his family.
“The precise antidepressants and therapy that he was on did not prevent him from committing heinous against his own children,” Christina said.
“If those methods didn’t prevent him from harming his own children, how will mental health diversion prevent future crimes?”
Grove’s bill has passed the committee and is advancing through the California legislature. Several different bills have also been passed, including the Scrivner Act, the Epstein Loophole Act and the Mental Health Diversion Reform Act.
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