PEOPLE v. VAN PATTEN


125 A.D.2d 827 (1986)

The People of the State of New York, Respondent, v. Robert Van Patten, Appellant

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York, Third Department.

December 24, 1986


Casey, J.

On May 2, 1985, the victim's mother, upon her return from shopping, was told by her four-year-old son that in her absence he had been sodomized anally by defendant, the mother's live-in boyfriend. An elder son, aged six, reported having heard the younger boy scream and call for his mother while in the master bedroom with defendant. The mother examined the sheets of the bed and noticed blood stains. When defendant later returned home, she confronted...

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