STATE v. FARR

No. 89-1276.

558 So.2d 437 (1990)

STATE of Florida, Petitioner, v. Lonnie FARR and Tanya Farr, Respondents.

District Court of Appeal of Florida, Fourth District.

On Rehearing April 11, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert A. Butterworth, Atty. Gen., Tallahassee and Joan Fowler, Asst. Atty. Gen., West Palm Beach, for petitioner.

Douglas N. Duncan of Wagner, Nugent, Johnson, Roth, Romano, Eriksen and Kupfer, P.A., West Palm Beach, for respondents.


POLEN, Judge.

The state seeks to prohibit a second, compelled gynecological examination of an eight-year-old child who, it is alleged, was the victim of sexual battery perpetrated by respondents Lonnie and Tanya Farr.

The child was examined in July 1987 by a Dr. Leviton. The medical findings showed no evidence of fissure or trauma to the anus. But an obliterated hymen and an opening approximately six millimeters across and twelve millimeters vertically suggested...

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