In the Interest of K.C.

Following a full hearing in the juvenile court of Carroll County, K. C. appeals his adjudication of delinquency for committing the offense of child molestation, arguing that the trial court erred in allowing the mother and the nurse practitioner who examined the victim to testify as to the victim’s out-of-court statements; that the evidence was insufficient to authorized his convictions; and that the trial court erred in denying his motion for directed verdict as a result. Finding no error, we affirm.

Viewed in the light most favorable to the verdict,1 the evidence shows as follows: At the time of the alleged incident the male victim was six years old. The victim’s mother testified that around the middle of September, 2001, the victim was playing with a friend of the same age. The friend came to the victim’s mother and relayed to her some statements the victim had made concerning “touching privates.” Based on the friend’s statements, the mother questioned the victim privately about what had caused him to make such statements. Upon questioning, the victim became hysterical; he was crying and shaking. The victim relayed to his mother that his next door neighbor and cousin K. C., who was thirteen at the time, had touched him on his “bottom” and had tried to placed his penis in his “bottom” while they were playing the woods. Further, the victim told his mother that K. C. had touched him in such a manner more “than once or twice” and that such conduct had been occurring “for a long time.” His mother took the victim to the doctor the next day.