Opinion
No. M2009-01295-CCA-R3-PC.
Assigned on Briefs August 18, 2010.
Filed August 25, 2010.
Appeal from the Circuit Court for Bedford County; No. 16570; Robert Crigler, Judge.
Judgment of the Circuit Court Affirmed.
Jack Dearing, Assistant Public Defender, (at trial); and Michael J. Collins, Assistant Public Defender, Shelbyville, Tennessee, (on appeal) for the appellant, Derek Alton Badger.
Robert E. Cooper, Jr., Attorney General and Reporter; Lindsy Paduch Stempel, Assistant Attorney General; Charles Crawford, District Attorney General; and Michael D. Randles, Assistant District Attorney General, for the appellee, State of Tennessee.
David H. Welles, J., delivered the opinion of the Court, in which Norma McGee Ogle and Robert W. Wedemeyer, JJ., joined.
OPINION
Following a jury trial, the Defendant, Derek Alton Badger, was convicted of one count of aggravated sexual battery, a Class B felony. See Tenn. Code Ann. § 39-13-504(b). In this appeal, he contends that the State presented evidence insufficient to convict him. After our review, we affirm the judgment of the trial court.
Factual Background
During the Defendant's trial, his sister, Cynthia Badger, testified that, in April 2008, she and her three children lived at her mother's house in Bedford County. Her step-father Michael, her brother Daniel, and the Defendant also lived in the house at the time. On April 23, 2008, when Ms. Badger was giving her three-year-old daughter, C.F., a bath, Ms. Badger
In order to protect the identity of minor victims of sexual abuse, it is the policy of this Court to refer to the