United States v. Bruce Bordeaux

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• noting that actual resistance not required when victim testified that “she knew that [Bordeaux] would punish her for saying no to him”
• determining that force was sufficient to sustain the four- level enhancement based on disparity in size and victim's statements that defendant threatened to tell victim's mother of \dirty book\ found by child if victim told her mother about sexual assaults
• convictions under section 2241(c) defined as knowingly engaging in a sexual act with another person who has not attained the age of twelve years
• force requirement is met when sexual contact resulted from restraint upon another person such that person could not escape sexual attack
• force established based on disparity in size between defendant and victim — 200 pounds compared to nonobese child — and victim’s statements that defendant threatened to tell victim’s mother of “dirty book” found by child if victim told her mother about sexual assaults
• force established based on disparity in size between defendant and victim--200 pounds compared to nonobese child--and victim&s statements that defendant threatened to tell victim&s mother of “dirty book” found by child if victim told her mother about sexual assaults

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).