Opinion
December 12, 1989
Appeal from the Supreme Court, Bronx County (Frank Diaz, J.).
The evidence at trial showed that the defendant used his superior age, size and strength to pull his nine-year-old daughter down onto his bed and have sexual intercourse with her under circumstances in which she could not get away. The People's proof of forcible compulsion (Penal Law § 130.35) is not deficient for lack of proof of actual violent conduct (People v Bianchi, 55 A.D.2d 993, 994). Forcible compulsion was shown by evidence of the defendant dominating his smaller and weaker daughter and preventing her from leaving him (see, People v Fuller, 50 N.Y.2d 628, 636).
The trial court correctly allowed the prosecutor to inquire as to the defendant's prior convictions (People v Sandoval, 34 N.Y.2d 371). That the convictions were more than 10 years old, alone, was not enough to preclude the prosecutor's using them to cross-examine the defendant (People v Scott, 118 A.D.2d 881, lv denied 67 N.Y.2d 1056).
Defendant's claim that the court should have instructed the jury as to the complainant's delay in reporting the rape (People v Derrick, 96 A.D.2d 600) is not preserved as a matter of law and we, therefore, decline to reach it. Were we to consider it, in the interests of justice, we would nonetheless affirm, finding it to be without merit.
Concur — Kupferman, J.P., Asch, Kassal, Wallach and Rubin, JJ.