People v. Porter

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Broome County (Mathews, J.), rendered April 7, 1997, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of aggravated sexual abuse in the second degree and sexual abuse in the first degree.

During the Fourth of July holiday in 1996, defendant and several of his friends, who were accompanied by their young children, were camping in the Town of Windsor, Broome County. On the afternoon of July 3, 1996 defendant volunteered to accompany the children while they went swimming in a nearby stream. After the nine-year-old victim, who was the only female in…