State v. Adams

OPINION

BILLINGS, Judge:

Nealy W. Adams appeals from a conviction of forcible sexual abuse in violation of Utah Code Ann. § 76-5-404(1) (1996). We affirm.

FACTS

In 1993, Adams began a relationship with Virla Hess and soon moved into Virla’s home, where she lived with her thirty-four-year-old Downs’ Syndrome daughter, Carleen. Car-leen functions at the cognitive level of a three-and-a-half-year-old.

About a year after he moved in with Virla and Carleen, Adams, who was a regular drinker, began to drink more heavily. Occa*783sionally Adams would become so inebriated that he could not remember the next…