Commonwealth v. Bourgeois

Rapoza, CJ.

The defendant was convicted by a Superior Court jury of one count of rape of a child and five counts of assault and battery on the same child, his stepdaughter.1 The sexual abuse occurred between 1993 and 2000, when the victim *434was between seven and thirteen years old and resided with the defendant and the victim’s mother.2 The victim testified at trial in July, 2002, approximately two years after the initial disclosures.

With new counsel, the defendant filed a motion for a new trial in which he argued that his trial counsel was ineffective for his failure to press for the pretrial…