State v. Duplantis

PICKETT, Judge.

| .FACTS

H.C.1 was referred for counseling with Rachel Hinton, a licensed professional counselor and licensed marriage and family therapist.2 H.C. indicated to Ms. Hinton he had been inappropriately touched by his brother and one time by the defendant, his mother’s boyfriend. Ms. Hinton stopped the questioning and notified H.C.’s Office of Child Services (OCS) worker.

Nicholette Joseph testified at trial as the representative of Hearts of Hope, a children’s advocacy center. She interviewed H.C. on June 2, 2010, when H.C. was six years old. The state played the videotaped…