State v. Biggs

MICHAEL A. WOLFF, Judge.

George Biggs was tried and found guilty of child abuse after his son, age 7, was found to have suffered extensive bruising after spending approximately five weeks with his father. Biggs challenges the admission of statements that the boy made to his mother and to authorities who investigated the bruising.

The boy suffered from a medical condition that rendered him unable to control his bowels. Due to this medical condition, the boy frequently defecated in his pants, often -without realizing that he had done so. The boy’s mother picked him up from Biggs’ house; on the…