Roadcap v. Commonwealth

KELSEY, Judge.

A jury convicted Mark Douglas Roadcap of twelve charges of child sexual abuse that included rape, object sexual penetration, abduction, and forcible sodomy. The victim, his daughter, was five and six years old when the abuse occurred. On appeal, he claims the trial court erroneously (a) excluded evidence of prior false accusations of sexual abuse and (b) violated both his statutory and constitutional rights in the manner in which the victim testified at trial via two-way closed-circuit television. We disagree and affirm Roadcap’s convictions.

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We recount the facts of this case…