State v. Ashley

11 Patrick Ashley appeals his sentence of 20 years at hard labor for the aggravated incest of his four-year-old niece. We affirm.

The 23-year-old Ashley lived with his mother, Mrs. Woods, in her house in Shreveport’s MLK neighborhood. Mrs. Woods regularly babysat toddlers in her home, including occasionally her granddaughter AR, who was Ashley’s niece and, at the time, about a month shy of her fifth birthday. On July 5, 2007, AR told her mother, Ms. Ratcliff, that Ashley had “put his wee-wee in her”; Ms. Ratcliff called the police. Detective Paula Moreno found that AR had reported this…