Commonwealth v. McGee

The defendant, who is the victim’s stepfather, appeals from convictions of rape of a child (G. L. c. 265, §23) and indecent assault and battery on a child under the age of fourteen (G. L. c. 265, § 13B). There was evidence that he had intercourse with the victim repeatedly from the time she was seven or eight years old until she was close to eleven in January, 1992. The defendant contends on appeal that the judge erred in declining to permit him to present another girl who presumably would testify that the victim told her she had intercourse with a boy at a time after the defendant allegedly…