Kevin B. Perry v. State of Indiana

OPINION

BAKER, Judge.

In the instant case, the father of a teenage girl’s boyfriend invited her and two of her friends over to his house while his son was away. After the girls had arrived, he served them alcoholic beverages and then got into bed where his son’s girlfriend was sleeping and, without her consent, inserted his fingers into her vagina and rubbed his penis on her buttocks. The father was charged and convicted of class D felony sexual battery. While the father’s actions are reprehensible, they do not qualify for sexual battery as defined by Indiana statute. His actions, however, do…