Peters v. State

Pope, Judge.

Defendant Joseph Peters appeals his conviction for two counts of child molestation and one count of enticing a child for indecent purposes.

1. In his sole enumeration of error, defendant argues the trial court committed reversible error by allowing a teenaged friend of the victim to testify regarding hearsay statements made to her by the victim. At trial defendant objected to the witness’ testimony on the basis that conversations or “secret telling” between two teenaged girls is inherently unreliable because they do not have the maturity to understand the serious implications of…