Pipkin, Judge. Jeramiah H. Tarlton (“Jeremiah”) and Maggie Ann Tarlton (“Maggie”) (collectively “Appellants”) were tried together before a jury and found guilty of child molestation and sexual battery. They filed separate motions for new trial and, following the denial of their motions, separate appeals to this Court. We consolidated their appeals for review and now affirm in both cases. The evidence presented at trial shows that the victims in this case are the Appellants’ daughter, E. T. and their son, J. T., who were three and four years old, respectively, in April 2012. Around that time, Cynthia Fuller, a relative of the Mother’s, was visiting from Montana. One day during her visit, while she was babysitting J. T., she entered the room where he was watching cartoons and saw that he had pulled down his shorts and underwear and was “jacking off.” Fuller, who was the mother of two older boys, testified that she did not think this was normal behavior for a four year old, so she asked J. T. if he had seen somebody else do that. J. T. told her that he had, and when she asked him who, Fuller said he gave her three names — “Daddy,” “David” and “Aaron.”[1] Family members contacted the Department of Family and Children Services (“DFACS”) about J. T.’s statements. A DFACS worker testified that she meet with J. T., who told her that his father had touched his private area. The worker also spoke to E. T., who said that her father had touched her and pointed to her private area. Carol Wollifred, Executive Director and forensic interviewer for a local Child Advocacy Center, testified that she conducted a forensic interview with J. T. and E. T.; this interview was recorded and played for the jury. During the interview, J. T. said that both his mother and his father touched his “pee bug” and that his father touched his sister’s “toot toot” and “booty.” J. T. said that these acts happened while they all had their clothes off. The interviewer gave him anatomically correct dolls to demonstrate his parents’ actions, and he undressed them and moved his fingers in and out of the anal opening of both the boy and girl doll and the vaginal opening of the girl doll; he also moved the boy doll’s penis with his hand and made a masturbation motion on the adult male doll. The forensic interviewer testified that his behavior with the dolls was not normal behavior for a four year old. J. T. said that these acts took place at his “mommy’s house” and that his parents were not bathing or cleaning him at the time they did this. He also said that his parents showed them movies with little girls and boys who were naked. J. T. also said that it felt good when it happened but that he did not like it and that his parents told him not to talk about what they did to him. The forensic interviewer also had to reassure J. T. that his mother could not hear him during the interview. E. T. was also interviewed. Although E. T., who was only three years old at the time of the interview, was reluctant to talk about the things her parents had done to her, she did indicate to the interviewer that she had been touched on both her “toot toot” and “booty.” Appellants both testified at trial, and denied that they committed any acts of molestation or sexual battery against their children.
