Parker v. State

First degree sexual abuse; six years

During the early evening hours of February 21, 1980, the prosecutrix, a ten-year-old girl, was playing "hide and seek" with her next door neighbors at their house. The prosecutrix was lying behind a clothes rack in a dark, upstairs bedroom when the appellant, who resided at the house, put his knees on the prosecutrix's knees and attempted to put a towel around her mouth. The appellant placed his hand under the prosecutrix's dress and touched the middle of her thigh and her stomach. The prosecutrix hit his hand and he stopped. Immediately thereafter, she ran…