People v. McConnell

Defendant was convicted by a jury of second-degree criminal sexual conduct, MCL 750.529c(l)(a); MSA 28.788(3)(l)(a), and was sen tenced to a prison term of 2-1/2 to 15 years. He appeals as of right raising three issues.

The six-year-old victim, Beth Ann Thompson, testified at trial. Though her testimony was at times contradictory, it disclosed that on one night in July, 1980, while her mother was out with her boyfriend, defendant and three other adults spent the night with Beth Ann, her three-year-old sister and her cousin. After Beth Ann had fallen asleep, defendant woke her and took her into…