P. v. Gors CA4/2
Defendant Bennett Taylor Gors took advantage of his friendship with the family of a six-year-old girl to molest her repeatedly over a period of about a month. He convinced her that she was his “girlfriend,” and he got her to cooperate with his sexual demands. He used his cell phone to make videos of their highly sexualized interactions.
At trial, in light of the appalling yet incontrovertible video evidence, defense counsel conceded that defendant was guilty of lewd touchings; he argued, however, that there was a reasonable doubt as to whether defendant engaged in intercourse, sodomy, or oral copulation, which were not shown in the videos, but which the victim had recounted to investigators. Nevertheless, a jury found defendant guilty on all counts.
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