State v. Simms, Unpublished Decision (12-23-2005)

OPINION

{¶ 1} Defendant-appellant, David Simms, appeals from a Columbiana County Common Pleas Court judgment convicting him of gross sexual imposition, after a jury trial.

{¶ 2} The allegations in this case date back to 1983 and 1984. At that time, the victim Kendra Prince was six or seven years old. She resided with her three sisters and parents in Wellsville. While her parents worked, Becky Simms babysat Kendra and her sisters.

{¶ 3} On some occasions while Becky was babysitting, she would leave the children in her husband's care in order to go home to tend to her own child. Kendra testified…