State v. B.H.

The opinion of the court was delivered by

WECKER, J.A.D.

A jury found defendant, B.H., guilty of first-degree aggravated sexual assault, N.J.S.A. 2C:14-2a(l) (count one) and third-degree endangering the welfare of a child, N.J.S.A 2C:24-4a as a lesserineluded offense of the second-degree crime defined by the same statute (count two). The victim was defendant’s seven-year-old stepson, L.H., the child of B.H.’s husband, co-defendant S.H. The cases against defendants were severed, and S.H. entered a guilty plea on June 7, 2002, approximately three weeks after the May 16, 2002 jury verdict in…