State v. Trotter

Moore, Justice:

Petitioner was convicted of several crimes relating to the sexual abuse of his daughter over a twenty-two-year period. We granted certiorari to review the Court of Appeals’ opinion affirming the convictions. State v. Trotter, — S.C. —, 453 S.E. (2d) 905 (Ct. App. 1995). We affirm as modified herein.

FACTS

At trial, the victim testified that petitioner sexually abused her from the time she was four years old until she was twenty-six-years old. She testified that following her parents’ divorce in 1982, she began to take on the role of mother and wife, and, at petitioner’s urging,…