People v. Sinatra

Yesawich, Jr., J.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Ulster County (Vogt, J.), *739rendered September 12, 1986, upon a verdict convicting defendant of two counts of the crime of sexual abuse in the first degree.

Defendant was convicted of sexually abusing his niece by fondling her genitalia on four occasions and sentenced to two concurrent prison terms of 1 to 3 years. The case against defendant depends almost exclusively on the testimony of the victim, who was 11 years old at the time of the trial. Defendant attacks the conviction on four grounds: (1) County Court abused its discretion…