SAN JOSE, Calif. (KRON) -- San Jose councilman Omar Torres, facing child sex crime allegations, has refused to step down. Critics are calling on the city council to remove Torres from office. San Jose city council members will meet Tuesday afternoon to discuss Torres’s absences. Allegations against Torres were revealed earlier this month. Since that time, Torres has not attended council duties and was absent from a council meeting on Oct. 8. The absence was marked as unexcused. San Jose mayor, city council call on Omar Torres to resign Council members are allowed to miss meetings, but the absences require permission. Torres claimed that he missed the Oct. 8 meeting due to an illness. City council members are meeting Tuesday at 1:30 p.m. to determine if Torres’s Oct. 8 unexcused absence should be changed to excused. According to the city charter, a council member with five consecutive unexcused absences can be removed from the city council. Torres represents District 3.