People v. Kerns

After a jury trial in the circuit court of Ford County, defendant, Sean Kerns, was found guilty of aggravated criminal sexual assault, a nonprobationable Class X felony (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1989, ch. 38, pars. 12 — 14(b)(2)(ii), (d)), for placing his penis in the anus of nine-year-old B.R Defendant was sentenced to six years’ imprisonment. Defendant appeals. We reverse and remand.

At the jury trial which commenced on June 24, 1991, B.P., who was nine in 1990, testified that on three consecutive Mondays during the summer of 1990, defendant wrestled with B.P., pulled down B.P.’s pants, and placed…