Roberts v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant guilty of first-degree sexual abuse, crediting the testimony of thirteen-year-old K.W. that in January 2001 he drove her to the Stadium Armory parking lot in Southeast Washington and forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. (Though unrelated to her, appellant lived in the same home as K.W.). Some weeks later, K.W. told her mother of the assault after the mother saw open sores on the child’s genitals that were later determined to be herpes. Medical testimony allowed the jury to infer that the onset of the herpes coincided with when K.W.…