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Patrick Walker was found guilty by a jury of four counts of child molestation. On appeal, he claims the trial court erred by refusing to strike a juror for cause, and by denying his motion to exclude testimony about pornographic material seized at his residence in a search conducted pursuant to a search warrant he claims was issued without a showing of probable cause. For the following reasons, we find no error and affirm the judgment of conviction entered on the guilty verdicts. 1. The State charged that Walker committed four counts of child molestation against the same minor child when the child was nine to eleven years old. The State charged that, with the intent to arouse and satisfy his sexual desires, Walker placed his penis on the child’s vagina count one; caused the child to place her hand on his penis count two; placed his hands on the child’s breasts count three, and, in the presence of the child, exposed and touched his penis and ejaculated count four. In support of these charges, the State presented testimony from the child that Walker committed all of the charged acts. A clinical psychologist who interviewed the child also testified that the child told him Walker rubbed her breasts. The State presented a video of the psychologist’s interview of the child concerning the molestation charges, but the video was not included in the record on appeal. Walker did not testify but presented testimony from various witnesses attacking the child’s credibility.

The child’s credibility was for the jury to determine. Dunagan v. State , 255 Ga. App. 309 565 SE2d 526 2002. Walker does not challenge the sufficiency of the evidence on appeal, and we find the evidence was sufficient for a rational trier of fact to find him guilty of the charged offenses beyond a reasonable doubt. OCGA § 16-6-4; Jackson v. Virginia , 443 U. S. 307 99 SC 2781, 61 LE2d 560 1979.

 
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