State v. Lewis

GARY M. GAERTNER, Sr., Judge.

Appellant, Mark E. Lewis (“Defendant”), appeals the judgment of the Circuit Court of Audrain County convicting him, after a jury trial, of child molestation in the first degree, section 566.067, RSMo 2000. 1 Defendant was sentenced as a pri- or and persistent offender to a term of thirty years’ imprisonment. We affirm. 2

Defendant began living with Abigail Lewis (“Mother”) and her three children in 2000. Mother has two sons, A.L.M. and M.J., and a daughter, A.M. (“Victim”). Victim was born in April of 1996. On October 14, 2003, Victim informed Mother that Defendant…