State v. High

Waite, Judge.

This timely appeal arises from the conviction of appellant, Jessie High, in the Court of Common Pleas of Mahoning County on the rape of his twelve-year-old daughter, H.D., and his subsequent designation as a sexual predator. For the following reasons, we affirm the judgment and sentence of the trial court.

On May 14, 1997, twelve-year-old H.D. arrived home from school at 2:30 p.m. She lived -with her mother on the north side of Youngstown. Thirty minutes later appellant, H.D.’s forty-nine-year-old father, arrived at her home on a motorcycle and drove her to the home of his…