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John Opie Osborne appeals from the judgment of conviction entered on jury verdicts finding him guilty of committing the offenses of rape, aggravated sexual battery, and two counts of child molestation, all against his seven-year-old daughter.1 For the following reasons, we affirm. 1. Osborne claims that the evidence was insufficient to support the guilty verdicts.

The State charged that Osborne raped the child count one; that he molested the child by touching, rubbing, and fondling the child’s vaginal area count three, and by having the child touch his penis count four, and that he committed aggravated sexual battery by penetrating the child’s sexual organ with his finger count 5. On appeal from a criminal conviction, a defendant no longer enjoys the presumption of innocence, and the evidence is viewed in the light most favorable to the guilty verdict. Parker v. State , 220 Ga. App. 303 469 SE2d 410 1996. Viewed in this light, the State presented the following evidence in support of the charged offenses. The child, age nine at the time of the trial, testified that Osborne touched her vagina with his hand, and that, at Osborne’s insistence, she touched his penis with her hand. A Cobb County police detective testified that he interviewed the child and that she told him Osborne touched her on her vagina with his hands, fingers, and penis, and that Osborne asked her to touch his penis. Another Cobb County detective, who conducted a videotaped interview with the child, testified that the child told her that she had sex with Osborne on multiple occasions. The State introduced the videotaped interview into evidence showing the child tell the detective that Osborne pulled her pants down and put his penis inside her vagina; that Osborne made her rub his penis with her hand, and that Osborne put his hand under her clothes, where he touched her vagina and put his hand inside her vagina. The child’s mother testified that the child told her that Osborne touched her on her private part; that Osborne made her touch him on his private part, and that Osborne tried to enter her private part and it hurt and she heard something pop. The child’s mother also testified that Osborne admitted to her that he molested the child while he and the child were laying in bed together. The child’s grandmother Osborne’s mother testified that the child told her that Osborne touched her on her private part and made her touch him on his private part. The evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Osborne was guilty of the charged offenses. OCGA § § 16-6-1 a 2; 16-6-4 a; 16-6-22.2; Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.

 
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