GAERIAN v. STATE

No. 2956 September Term, 2002.

860 A.2d 396 (2004)

159 Md. App. 527

Zoilo Camposano GAERIAN a/k/a Zoilan Gaerlan v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

October 28, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison E. Pierce (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Sarah Page Pritzlaff (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Panel: KENNEY, BARBERA, and THEODORE G. BLOOM (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


BARBERA, Judge.

Appellant, Zoilo Camposano Gaerian, a/k/a Zoilan Gaerlan, stands convicted by a jury of child abuse and second degree assault for having sexually assaulted his half-sister, ten years younger than he, from the time she was four or five years old until she was thirteen. One of the issues presented by this appeal is the admissibility of the victim's report of the assaults to her best friend.

As recounted by the friend, the victim reported in October...

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