State v. Serigne

|tFor the following reasons, I respectfully dissent from the majority’s reversal of Lionel Serigne’s conviction of aggravated rape and William Serigne’s convictions of forcible rape, sexual battery, and aggravated incest.

This case involves sexual abuse of children perpetrated by the two defendants, who are brothers, upon female family members, beginning with the molestation of their cousin D.A. in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. D.A. did not reveal this molestation to anyone until approximately 1992, when, at the age of twenty-one, she attended a family event and saw her cousin, Lionel…