Commonwealth v. McCloughan

WATKINS, Judge:

This is an appeal from the judgment of sentence of the Court of Common Pleas of Northampton County, Criminal Division, by the defendant-appellant, George McCloughan, III, after his convictions by a jury on various charges involving sexual acts with minor females.

The defendant was the stepfather of Brenda and Rhonda Strouse, who were children of his wife’s first marriage. Both girls were minors at the time of the trial, Brenda being fourteen (14) years of age and Rhonda being sixteen (16) years of age. At the trial the defendant was found guilty of the statutory rape of Brenda…