Commonwealth v. Pankraz

How courts have described this case

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• finding evidence sufficient where defendant inserted knife and screwdriver into the vagina of his 4 year old daughter
• finding evidence sufficient where defendant inserted knife and screwdriver into the vagina of his 4 year old daughter
• corruption of minors conviction upheld where defendant’s conduct was repeatedly inserting object into minor daughter’s vagina
• trial court did not abuse its discretion by permitting child witness to sit in grandmother’s lap while testifying — no prejudice shown
• trial court has broad discretion to conduct trial; no error in permitting 4-year-old child to testify in grandmother’s lap since no prejudice shown or that child was influenced
• guardian ad litem sat 15-20 feet behind 11-vear-old witness

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).