Estep v. State

Pope, Presiding Judge.

Defendant Leslie Estep was convicted by a jury of cruelty to children. She appeals following the denial of her motion and amended motion for new trial.

Dennis Fish, an investigator with the Habersham County Sheriff’s Department, testified that he and a Department of Family & Children Services caseworker, Angela Lingerfelt, were called to the Habersham Medical Center after Estep’s three-year-old daughter was brought into the emergency room with a broken leg. Fish and Lingerfelt both testified that Estep initially told them that she did not know how the victim broke her…