People v. Bartholomew

Appeal by the defendant from a judgment of the Supreme Court, Kings County (Gary, J.), rendered April 17, 2014, convicting him of rape in the first degree, upon a jury verdict, and imposing sentence.

Ordered that the judgment is affirmed.

In the morning of January 1, 2011, the defendant awoke his 14-year-old daughter, brought her into his bedroom, and raped her. On January 12, 2011, the daughter secretly tape-recorded three short telephone conversations between herself and the defendant, and a longer conversation they had in the defendant’s car, during which the defendant apologized, asked her…