State v. Marcum

HOWE, Justice:

Defendant appeals his conviction of sexual abuse of a child. Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-404.1 (1978, Supp.1987).

In response to accusations that her husband, the defendant, had been molesting their seven-year-old daughter, Sue Marcum asked Marjan Martin, a social worker, to interview the child. In the interview held on January 15, 1985, the child said her father would lay her down on her bed, take her clothes off, and touch her when her mother was not at home. She also said that “in the night I wake up and he puts his finger inside me.” The child told Martin that these incidents had…