State v. Beaty

Defendant appeals his conviction for sexual abuse in the first degree. ORS 163.427. He makes multiple assignments of error. We affirm.

Defendant was convicted of the touching or the digital penetration of the vagina of his girlfriend’s four-year-old daughter. His first assignment of error concerns the trial court’s sustaining of the state’s objection to a question asked of defendant during his testimony that would have elicited the fact that his girlfriend had struck her daughter in the head and sent her to bed when the child denied that defendant had abused her. The state objected to the…