Commonwealth v. Asenjo

In January, 2015, the defendant, Gaudy Asenjo, was convicted by a Superior Court jury of three counts of aggravated 1 rape of a child. 2 The complainant was the defendant’s niece, Sara, 3 who was fourteen years of age at the time of the rape. The defendant appeals from the convictions, claiming that the judge erred in (1) interpreting the first complaint rule to require the disclosure of the perpetrator’s identity to the first complaint witness and allowing a police officer to testify as the first complaint witness; (2) allowing the complainant to testify to multiple disclosures of the sexual…