Commonwealth v. Poitras

The defendant, Paul Poitras, appeals his convictions on one count of rape of his stepdaughter, a child under the age of sixteen (G. L. c. 265, § 22A); one count of assault on the same child with intent to commit rape (G. L. c. 265, § 24B); and one count of indecent assault and battery on the same child (G. L. c. 265, § 13J).1 Poitras’s chief arguments on appeal concern the admission of certain testimony by a Commonwealth expert on child sexual abuse and the application of stage two of the Bishop/Fuller procedure for privileged records. See Commonwealth v. Bishop, 416 Mass. 169, 181 (1993);…