People v. Melendez

Opinion by

Judge VOGT.

Defendant, Jorge E. Melendez, Jr., appeals the judgment of conviction entered on a jury verdict finding him guilty of multiple counts of aggravated incest, sexual assault on a child, sexual assault on a child-pattern of abuse, and sexual assault on a child under fifteen by one in a position of trust. We reverse and remand for a new trial.

A seven-year-old girl told her grandparents that she had been sexually abused on several occasions by defendant, who was then married to the girl’s mother. The child later told her mother about the abuse and described the incidents to a…