People v. Ellis

Defendant, Mark Stephen Ellis, appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of four counts of sexual assault on a child-position of trust, one count of sexual assault on a child-pattern, and one count of child abuse. We affirm.

Ellis was accused of sexually abusing his adopted daughter, Y.E., beginning when she was seven years old.

Police searched Ellis’s house and seized all the blankets that had been on V.E.’s bed. The Colorado Bureau of Investigation found semen stains on three of V.E.’s blankets and concluded that the DNA on the stains matched Ellis’s DNA…