Legal Opinion
United States v. J.A.S.
Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit
Decided June 12, 2017No. 15-2480PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
KETHLEDGE, Circuit Judge.
In February of 2014, the eight year-old victim in this case, whom we refer to as KV, accused her seventeen year-old uncle, whom we refer to as JAS, of sexually abusing her on tribal land. Specifically, she said that JAS had vaginally raped her, though she did not use that term. The FBI soon interviewed KV, who described the assault to an interviewer who had conducted more than 5,000 such interviews. JAS was thereafter charged with an act of juvenile delinquency, to wit, sexual abuse of a child under the age of twelve in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 2241(c). The…
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