Allen v. State

Clarke, Chief Justice.

A jury found Tony Allen guilty of molesting a ten-year-old neighbor between October 1988 and April 1989. Appellant molested the victim in his home on several occasions, threatening that if she revealed what he had done to her, she would get in trouble. Eventually, she told her sister, and her parents later discovered the molestation. Although the parents learned of the incidents in June or July of 1989, they did not report it to the police until October 1989 because they believed Allen had left the state. When they later saw Allen, they contacted the Cobb County Police.…