Howard v. Commonwealth

OPINION

LAMBERT, Judge.

James Edward Howard appeals from the McCracken Circuit Court’s final judgment of conviction for sexual abuse in the first degree and resisting arrest, for which Howard received an aggregate sentence of ten years’ imprisonment. After careful review, we affirm the trial court’s judgment of conviction and sentence.

On May 22, 2007, Dr. Fred Mushkat and Nurse Karen Waddley were on duty in the Western Baptist Hospital Emergency Room in Paducah, Kentucky, when K.H. and her husband brought five-year-old B.H. into the emergency room after they noticed B.H. rubbing her crotch. Dr.…