State v. Spence

OPINION

HOWARD, Judge.

Appellant, convicted by a jury of two counts of molesting his stepdaughter, was sentenced to concurrent prison terms of seven years each. The victim, who was fourteen at the time of trial, testified that appellant began molesting her when she was four years old. The molestations consisted, inter alia, of sexual intercourse at least once per week. This conduct continued until 1982, when the victim had attained 12 years of age. The reason it stopped was that the victim threatened to tell her mother if appellant did not stop molesting her. The victim finally did tell her…