State v. Moore

TROUT, Chief Justice.

This case involves an appeal from a conviction and sentence on one count of lewd conduct with a minor child under sixteen.

I

BACKGROUND

On May 5,1995, five-year-old S.K. told her parents that a man at day care she called “Uncle Ted” had touched her genitals. Uncle Ted was later identified as the appellant Walter Moore. Moore was the father-in-law of the owner of the day care that S.K. attended briefly in the fall of 1993 and then again from October, 1994 until May, 1995. The day care was in the home of Moore’s daughter-in-law. S.K. had told the day care owner that Uncle Ted…