In People v. Britton, decided by the Court of Appeals last month, a teenager testified that when she was 11 years old she had sexual intercourse with her uncle during a visit to her grandmother. Her uncle and grandmother testified that no such thing had occurred.
The People presented an expert to explain why the girl showed no physical signs of having had sexual intercourse and another expert to explain why she waited so long before saying anything. The jury nevertheless rejected her story and acquitted the uncle of the felony charges. But in an apparent “something-must-have-happened” compromise, they returned a guilty verdict of the misdemeanor of mouth-to-breast contact.
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