Robert William Klausen appeals following his conviction on one count of child molestation. For the reasons set forth below, we affirm. Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict, the evidence showed that on the evening of July 14, 2006, several people, including A. H., Klausen’s six-year-old niece, gathered at Klausen’s house in Morgan, Georgia. Most of the adults, including Klausen, were drinking alcohol. At one point, Klausen’s 20-year-old daughter, Heather, went into the living room of the house to search for the telephone. When she walked in, she saw A. H. sitting at one end of the sofa and Klausen sitting at the other end with his pants down, masturbating. Heather stated that when Klausen saw her, he looked “like he was mad at me; like he wanted to jump up and hit me, just the look on his face.” Heather removed A. H. from the room, and Klausen’s wife called police. Heather testified that she did not think that A. H. “really realized what was going on.” After police were summoned, several members of Klausen’s family held him down until police arrived. Heather described her father as intoxicated, and the police officer who responded to the scene described him as “commode-hugging drunk.”
Klausen testified that he spent most of that evening in the living room and that “for the most part” he was watching cartoons on television. He said he “always watches cartoons.” He conceded that he was “pretty well drunk” by the time Heather came into the living room. He denied, however, that he was masturbating. Instead, he said he was scratching himself because he had a “bad case of jock itch.” Klausen said that he did not even know that A. H. was in the room, and that he would not have scratched himself if he knew she was there. He admitted, however, that A. H. sometimes came into the living room to watch cartoons with him and that she had come in there earlier in the evening. He did not think that A. H. saw him because she sat on the end of the sofa closest to the television and would have had to look back to see him.
