Commonwealth v. Lenane

A Superior Court jury concluded that the defendant *15raped his then nine year old stepdaughter vaginally and anally and convicted him of multiple charges arising from two separate episodes.2 The defendant’s principal claim of error on appeal is that the victim was permitted to testify about her disclosures to multiple complaint witnesses during the Commonwealth’s casein-chief in violation of the first complaint doctrine.3 See Commonwealth v. King, 445 Mass. 217 (2005), cert. denied, 546 U.S. 1216 (2006).4 Though the Commonwealth presented testimony concerning the victim’s multiple reports of…