Drumm v. Commonwealth

LEIBSON, Justice.

Bruce Drumm has been convicted of first-degree rape and first-degree sodomy of his daughter, A.D. (then 3-years old), and first-degree sodomy of his son, S.D. (then 6-years old). Karen Drumm, his wife and the children’s mother, has been convicted for the same offenses based on complicity. Both have been sentenced to life imprisonment for each of the three offenses, the sentences to run concurrently. They appeal to the Supreme Court as a matter of right.

The Commonwealth’s theory of the case was that the acts charged, and other deviant sexual behavior involving the children,…