State v. Ek

HANNA, Presiding Judge.

The defendant, Joseph A. Ek, Jr., was found guilty by a jury of sexual abuse in the first degree pursuant to § 566.100 RSMo 1986 1 and was sentenced to the Missouri Department of Corrections for five years and fined $500.00. He raises three points on appeal. The defendant claims error because the court admitted two photographs of his stepdaughter (T.K.) arguing they depicted events too remote in time to have probative value and they should have been excluded because they were evidence of other crimes. Defendant further claims the state failed to prove the element of…