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House v. State

Citations

  • 512 S.E.2d 287
  • 236 Ga. App. 405
  • 99 Fulton County D. Rep. 451
  • 1999 Ga. App. LEXIS 52

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  • affirming trial court’s refusal to allow defendant to question child witness about the witness’s own sexual abuse by third party in order to argue the victim learned about sex by witnessing such abuse
  • evidence was sufficient to establish force where the father repeatedly sexually assaulted a child, the child’s outcries to her mother were ignored, and the father warned the child not to tell anyone about his abuse
  • evidence was sufficient to establish force where the father repeatedly sexually assaulted a child, the child’s outcries to her mother were ignored, and the father warned the child not to tell anyone about his abuse
  • element of physical injury for offense of aggravated child molestation was satisfied by evidence “that the victim’s hymen had been torn away in the past” and that the victim had an injury at the entrance to her vagina described as a callus

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Judges: Eldridge, Pope, Smith

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