Presented for review is the question whether the defendant may be indicted for sexual abuse in the first degree (Penal Law, § 130.65) when he forcibly compels another to play with and manipulate his navel with her fingernails. A determination of this question can only be reached by resolving the subsidiary issue of whether the navel constitutes a "sexual or intimate" part of a person so as to fall within the ambit of "sexual contact...
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