Commonwealth v. Rivera

Convicted by a Superior Court jury of four counts of rape of a child and two counts of indecent assault and battery upon a child, the defendant appeals, claiming evidence should have been admitted that the complaining witness had made a *322prior allegation of sexual assault, that his cross-examination of her was impermissibly restricted, and that the Commonwealth’s closing argument was improper in several respects. We affirm the judgments.

According to the testimony of the complaining witness, Jane,1 in January of 1990, the defendant — who had been living with Jane, her mother, and two sisters…