State v. Borchert

Defendant was tried by a jury in the district court of the eighteenth judicial district, Gallatin county, and convicted of' the offense of committing a lewd and lascivious act upon a child. He was sentenced to twenty years in the Montana state prison.

On July 31, 1969 at approximately 1:00 p.m. the victim, a five-year-old girl, and her two girl friends, ages nine and ten, were forced into a car and taken to the outskirts of Bozeman, Montana where the victim was sexually molested. The girls were then taken back to Bozeman at approximately 2:00 p.m. The girls told the mother of the victim what…