296 Ga. App. 368 - Sims v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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1. “Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the record shows that on three separate occasions between January 1,2004, and August 31, 2004, Sims inappropriately touched his ten-year-old stepdaughter B. H. while her mother was at church. B. H. testified that on two occasions, Sims came into her bedroom, wearing only his boxer shorts, and touched her breasts and vagina on top of her pajamas. The third time, Sims touched B. H.’s breasts and vagina under her clothing, and exposed himself to her. B. H. testified that the three incidents occurred at the home she shared with her mother, brother, and Sims, in Locust Grove, Henry County. B. H. also testified about two other encounters with Sims. On one occasion, B. H. was sitting on Sims’s lap driving his car down a dirt road when Sims unbuttoned her pants and “started messing with [the] lower part of [her] body.” On the other occasion, Sims took B. H. to a “bootleg house” in Spalding County, removed her clothing, and tried unsuccessfully to put his penis in her vagina. B. H. also described a sixth encounter with Sims, which occurred at her grandmother’s home in Lithonia, DeKalb County. B. H. told her mother[ ] . . . about the incidents and [her mother] called the police. When [B. H.’s mother] questioned Sims about the incidents, Sims told her that he did it and then turned himself in to police. As similar transaction evidence, the [S]tate introduced the testimony of Sims’s biological daughter, S. S., who testified that on more ”

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