People v. Rivers
Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York
1Opinion of the Court
Memorandum: Defendant appeals from a judgment convicting her upon a jury verdict of, inter alia, course of sexual conduct against a child in the second degree (Penal Law § 130.80 [1] [b]) and sexual abuse in the second degree (§ 130.60 [2]). We reject defendant’s contention that County Court erred in admitting evidence of uncharged acts of physical abuse to which the victim was subjected, as well as acts witnessed by her. Such evidence is admissible “ ‘to explain the victim’s failure to reveal the ongoing sexual assaults’ ” (People v Bennett, 52 AD3d 1185, 1187 [2008], lv denied 11 NY3d 734…
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