State v. Clark

Defendant was convicted of oral sodomy on his 14-year-old stepdaughter and received a 10-year sentence.

The stepdaughter testified that shortly after her mother’s death in January 1974, defendant commenced having intercourse with her three or four times a week. Defendant remarried in March 1975 and the intercourse with the stepdaughter ceased. However, on June 20, 1975, after a quarrel, defendant and his wife separated. That night defendant took the stepdaughter and his eight-year-old son to a motel in Springfield where he allegedly committed the sodomy offense charged in the indictment.

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