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After a jury trial, Gerald Beaudoin was convicted of statutory rape as a lesser included offense of rape, aggravated sexual battery, aggravated child molestation, and two counts of child molestation. He appeals, challenging the sufficiency of the evidence, the refusal to dismiss a juror for cause, the admission of his statements to police, the admission of testimony from a polygraph examiner and the refusal to give a jury charge on simple battery as a lesser included offense. Because there is sufficient evidence to support the jury’s verdict, the prospective juror was unbiased, the statements to police were given freely and voluntarily, there was a stipulation to the admissibility of the polygraph results and there has been no showing that simple battery was a lesser included offense of the indicted crimes, we affirm. 1. “On appeal from a criminal conviction, we view the evidence in the light most favorable to the verdict, and the defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence. We do not weigh the evidence or determine witness credibility, but only determine if the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find the defendant guilty of the charged offense beyond a reasonable doubt.” Citations and punctuation omitted. McCoy v. State , 278 Ga. App. 492-493 1 629 SE2d 493 2006. So viewed, the evidence shows that Beaudoin befriended the 12-year-old victim. On various occasions, he engaged in sexual contact with her, fondling her breasts and vaginal area, inserting his finger into her vagina, and inserting his penis into her mouth and vagina. The evidence was sufficient to authorize the jury to find Beaudoin guilty beyond a reasonable doubt of the charged offenses. See Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979; Falak v. State , 261 Ga. App. 404, 405 1 583 SE2d 146 2003.

To the extent that Beaudoin complains that the trial court erred in denying his motion for a directed verdict of acquittal as to the offense of forcible rape, “this complaint is rendered moot because Beaudoin was not found guilty of that offense. Cit.” Banta v. State , 282 Ga. 392, 396 2 651 SE2d 21 2007.

 
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