Zack Eldred, Jr. v. State

OPINION

Opinion by

Justice CARTER.

I. Factual and Procedural Background

Zack Eldred, Jr., appeals from his conviction of continuous sexual abuse of a child under fourteen years of age. See Tex. Penal Code Ann. § 21.02 (West Supp. 2013). The State alleged Eldred, age forty-nine, sexually abused Holly Keilburg (a pseudonym), age thirteen, two or more times in a thirty-day period.

In his recorded statement 1 to the police and in a written statement, Eldred denied any sexual acts with Keilburg, though he admitted that he and Keilburg slept in the same bed together. Keilburg, fifteen at the time of…