Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and the matter is remitted to the Supreme Court, Kings County, for a new trial.
The defendant was the stepgrandfather of the complainant, who was 11 years old at the time of the trial. The defendant had married the complainant's grandmother when the complainant was fours years old, and was living with the complainant's mother and brother in her grandmother's three-bedroom apartment in Brooklyn.
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