People v. Griffin

—Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court,. Kings County (Quinones, J.), rendered March 18, 1991, convicting him of sexual abuse in the first degree (two counts) and endangering the welfare of a child, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

The defendant, a male in his twenties, and the complainant, a ten-year-old boy with a troubled psychiatric history, were not strangers to each other. They had been neighbors since the complainant was about three years old, and the defendant acted like an older brother to the complainant at…