Where a mother challenged the termination of her parental rights, the judgment is affirmed because the conditions that caused the child to come under court jurisdiction continued because the mother refused to move out of the home of the child’s ...

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Where a defendant in a sexual abuse case challenged the admission of expert testimony about the delayed disclosure of childhood sexual abuse, the judgment is affirmed because the expert had training and experience in a relevant and legitimate field of ...

Tagged with: Delayed Disclosure Exclusion of Expert Testimony sexual abuse

Defendant appealed from his conviction of charges of sexual abuse. On appeal, defendant challenged the denial of his oral motion for a continuance made on the first day of trial, after the court had denied a prior continuance motion because ...

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Where a defendant in a case involving the sexual abuse of a minor challenged the district court’s reliance on text message conversations to show his intent to engage in sexual acts with the minor when he crossed the state line, ...

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  Where a defendant, who was convicted of five sexual offenses against a child victim, challenged the exclusion of specific instances of the victim’s sexual conduct that were near in time to the defendant’s last offense against the victim, the ...

Tagged with: sexual abuse Victim’s Conduct

Defendant was convicted of four counts of sexual abuse involving three young relatives. On appeal, defendant challenged for the first time the district court’s ruling admitting into evidence video recordings of the victims’ forensic interviews, arguing that they constituted inadmissible ...

Tagged with: Admission of Hearsay Evidence Criminal Law Recording of Victim Forensic Interviews sexual abuse

  Defendant was convicted of sexual abuse and attempted witness-tampering, stemming from an assault on his girlfriend. On appeal, defendant challenged the sufficiency of the evidence, argued that the district court erroneously admitted hearsay evidence and alleged there was a ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law sexual abuse Sufficiency Of Evidence Variance from Indictment

Organizers of an upcoming Vatican summit on sex abuse prevention are warning that the credibility of the Catholic Church is in jeopardy over the abuse scandal and are urging participants to meet with victims personally before coming to Rome. In ...

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Organizers of an upcoming Vatican summit on sex abuse prevention are warning that the credibility of the Catholic Church is in jeopardy over the abuse scandal and are urging participants to meet with victims personally before coming to Rome. In ...

Tagged with: Catholic Church Child Sexual Abuse sexual abuse

Defendant was found guilty of sexual abuse and felony attempted enticement of a child. At trial, the state offered two witnesses who testified that defendant had, years ago, offered them money to expose themselves to defendant. On appeal, defendant challenged ...

Tagged with: Admission of Prior Bad Acts Criminal Law Questioning of Family Member’s Prior Bad Acts sexual abuse

Where a defendant challenged his conviction for sexual abuse in the second degree arguing that the evidence was insufficient to support the charge because he did not grab the victim’s genitals for the purpose of gratifying sexual desire, the judgment ...

Tagged with: Criminal Law sexual abuse Sufficiency Of Evidence