Childs v. State

Deen, Presiding Judge.

The appellant, Jerry Childs, was convicted of two counts of child molestation, two counts of attempted child molestation, and one count of statutory rape. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in admitting testimony of two witnesses recounting the appellant’s alleged sexual abuse of them when they were small children, and that the trial court should have directed a verdict of acquittal.

The three victims were sisters, aged 9, 11, and 12 at the time of the alleged incidents of molestation, and the appellant was their uncle. All of the incidents occurred at the…