People v. Rossi

Mikoll, J. P.

Appeal from a judgment of the County Court of Tioga County (Siedlecki, J.), rendered August 26, 1991, upon a verdict convicting defendant of the crimes of sodomy in the second degree (six counts), sexual abuse in the first degree and endangering the welfare of a child.

Defendant’s convictions stem from his sexual abuse of three young boys. Defendant was the boys’ Little League baseball coach. The children testified that defendant had them stay overnight at his house on occasion at which times, while he slept in the same bed with them, he fondled them and sodomized them as well.…