Carswell v. State

Birdsong, Presiding Judge.

Levi Carswell was convicted of child molestation and sentenced to 20 years, to serve twelve. The twelve-year-old victim was the daughter of the woman with whom Carswell lived for convenience *57purposes. The victim told her mother, or the mother read in the child’s diary, “Levi got me up last night.” The mother took the child to the hospital where apparently no physical or medical evidence of sexual intercourse was found. In a videotaped statement made that day, the child described the instances of sexual intercourse with Cars-well, all having occurred once or twice a…