Stargel v. State

Pope, Chief Judge.

Defendant was convicted by a jury on two counts of aggravated child molestation and acquitted on two counts of aggravated sodomy.

M. S., defendant’s five-year-old grandson, told his mother that J. W., M. S.’s nine-year-old cousin, and N. S., his ten-year-old uncle (defendant’s son), had “stuck their joober in my butt,” meaning they had engaged in anal intercourse with him. After a doctor’s physical exam showed that M. S.’s rectum was stretched to the point that two fingers could be easily inserted without hurting him, his mother asked him if any adults were involved. When M.…