· 12/9/1850
Bell v. the Commonwealth
Citations
- 48 Va. 201
How courts have described this case
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- “[E]ither the act of fondling the nine-year old’s breasts was a lewd molestation or it was no crime at all, because a non-lewd touching of a child by a parent cannot constitute a battery, absent evidence of physical injury or other factors not alleged or proven here.”
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