State v. Strobel

This is an appeal from a judgment and sentence in the Common Pleas Court of Henry County, wherein the defendant-appellant, David E. Strobel, was convicted in a jury trial of three counts of gross sexual imposition in violation of R.C. 2907.05(A)(3). The charges involved three separate instances of sexual contact with the defendant’s two granddaughters over a seven-month period in 1985. Both granddaughters were less than thirteen years of age at the time.

At trial, the first granddaughter testified that the defendant had sexual contact with her on two separate occasions when she was eleven…