In the Interest of A. H.

A.H., a 14-year-old boy, was adjudicated delinquent after being found to have committed an offense which, if committed by an adult, would be child molestation. He appeals, raising three enumerations of error. We find no merit in any of these, and we affirm.

Construed to support the juvenile court’s judgment, the evidence presented at the adjudicatory hearing showed that A.H.’s mother and the victim’s mother were friends. The two families socialized often. The four-year-old victim, her mother, her brother, and her three-year-old sister were at a swimming party at the home of A.H. The victim testified that during the party she went inside the house to use the bathroom. While she was there, A.H. came in, laid her on the floor, pulled her bathing suit down, and touched her vagina with his hand twice. Afterward, she watched cartoons, and A.H. read her a book in his bedroom. The day after the pool party, the victim’s younger sister was lying down at home, and their mother observed the victim open her sister’s legs and tell her she was going to “tickle your hiney like A.H. tickled me.” When her mother questioned her, the victim told her that A.H. had “tickled me and then he hurt” her in her “hiney.” The mother then called the authorities. The victim was interviewed by the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office’s child abuse investigator, and the interview was videotaped. During the interview, which was admitted without objection at trial, the victim made a spontaneous statement that A.H. touched her “hiney” and it hurt. She indicated on an anatomically correct doll how A.H. had touched her. A.H. was then arrested. He was interviewed with his mother present, and the interviewer found numerous inconsistencies in his statement.