13 things about San Martin, California’s Harry Eugene Goularte Jr.

Who is Harry Eugene Goularte?

Harry Eugene Goularte Jr. is an American man from San Martin, Santa Clara County, California, United States. Here are 13 more things about him:

1. He is Harry Eugene Goularte Sr. and Patricia Lynn “Patty” Goularte‘s son.
2. He is Paul Bender‘s stepson.
3. Aside from San Martin, he has lived in other parts of California including Morgan Hill, Gilroy, San Jose and Hollister.
4. He owned a business in San Martin called Certified Custom Concrete.
5. He is 3 years older than Cain Velasquez Sr.
6. His mother ran a daycare business on Powder Horn Court in San Martin called Patty Family Child Care, which was attended by more than 20 children including Velasquez’s son Cain Velasquez Jr., who was born in 2017.
7. He lived at a home in San Martin that hosted Patty Family Child Care, which was written up twice in 2018 for having inadequate number of supervisors for the amount of children present.
8. From 2021 to 2022, he allegedly inappropriately touched Cain Jr. on multiple occasions while the child was attending Patty Family Child Care.
9. In 2022, he was arrested then released on bail.
10. In 2023, his trial setting in child molestation case was delayed.
11. In 2024, he was still out of jail on bail.
12. In June 2024, he turned 46.
13. In 2025, his jury trial will start.

TIMELINE

2022

• In January 2022, he and Bender passed necessary criminal background checks and received child abuse index clearances or exemptions.
• On February 23, 2022, the Sheriff’s Office Sexual Assault Investigation Unit (SAIU) detectives of the Santa Clara County Sheriff’s Office interviewed him and booked him into the Santa Clara County Main Jail in San Jose.
• On February 25, 2022, he was arraigned on a felony count of a lewd and lascivious act with a child under the age of 14. Over objections from the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office, a judge granted him supervised release and required him to wear an electronic monitoring bracelet. He was released on $50,000 bail.
• On February 28, 2022, his mother and Bender were with him in a Silverado while he was on his way to get his electronic monitoring bracelet. Driving a truck, Cain Sr. allegedly started following the Silverado at around 3:00 p.m. At around 3:25 p.m., Cain Sr. allegedly fired a .40 caliber gun at him seven times but hit Bender twice instead then rammed the Silverado. He and his mother were unharmed while Bender was taken to Regional Medical Center in San Jose with non-life-threatening injuries.
• Represented by Stephen Defilippis, he pleaded not guilty to lewd and lascivious acts with a minor at a hearing in Morgan Hill, California on June 6, 2022.
• On June 28, 2022, Cain Sr.’s wife Michelle Velasquez, represented by Warren Paboojian, filed a civil lawsuit against him, Patty, Bender, Certified Custom Concrete and Patty Family Child Care.
• The pre-trial for him on September 20, 2022 was granted a continuance. At a hearing in San Jose, Judge Cynthia A. Sevely approved a request to continue the matter until November 14, 2022 in order for a longer allowance of discussion time.
• On November 8, 2022, he was released on $1 million bail.

2023

• On February 27, 2023, judge Javier Alcala ruled that he would stand trial for his alleged crime after Cain Jr. implicated him for the first time. DeFilippis cross-examined Cain Jr. during a key preliminary hearing that day.
• On July 5, 2023, judge Daniel T. Nishigaya granted his trial-setting hearing be continued until August 30, 2023.

2024

• In August 2024, while he was still out of jail on bail, DeFilippis wrote in court documents, “Judge Alcala at times was asleep and not focused on the proceedings taking place before him. His determination may have missed important, yet subtle parts of the testimony that lend to the minor’s credibility.”

2025

• On January 8, 2025, judge Benjamin Williams required him to appear in person for his jury trial on June 2, 2025.
• On March 24, 2025, Cain Sr. was sentenced to 5 years in prison for shooting at him on February 28, 2022.