State v. Isbell

Terry Isbell (“Defendant”) appeals his conviction, after a jury trial in the Circuit Court of Washington County, of one count of abuse of a child, in violation of Section 568.060.1 We affirm.

BACKGROUND

On September 19, 2014, the Potosí High School football team was set to square-off in a Friday night duel. C.M. (“Victim”), a seventeen-year-old female student at Poto-sí High School, desired to attend the Friday night match-up but needed money for bus fare and concessions. Victim asked her mother (“Mother”) and step-father, Defendant, for the money, but they declined, citing a lack of funds,…