McDade v. State

KHOUZAM, Judge.

Richard R. McDade was charged with various sex crimes after his sixteen-year-old stepdaughter reported that he had been sexually abusing her since she was ten years old. She gave law enforcement two recordings that she had made of her conversations with McDade after her mother did not believe her story and her boyfriend encouraged her to obtain proof of the abuse. These incriminating recordings were presented at trial. The jury found McDade guilty of two counts of sexual battery on a child less than twelve years of age, one count of solicitation of sexual activity with a child,…