on November 16, 1979. On that day, Jeff, along with some other young residents of Montani Clinical Center, went on a field trip to Greynolds Park. Jeff climbed onto the roof of a bridge to fish. His line became snagged in a tree and he lost his hook. He went below the bridge to look for another hook. There, a man whom Jeff had earlier noticed sitting on a bench smoking and whom he later identified as Sias, asked Jeff if he would like to smoke some marijuana. Jeff immediately agreed and, told that the marijuana was in the man's car, followed the man through the woods to get the marijuana. As they were walking along the path, a man later identified as Timothy Bartsch, Sias' co-defendant,[1] steppedout from the bushes and threw a blue denim jacket over Jeff's head. Jeff was dragged from the path. Bartsch told Jeff he would break his neck if he screamed. Sias then threatened Bartsch with harm if he hurt the boy. Sias and Bartsch pulled Jeff's pants down to his ankles and performed sex acts upon him. They then offered Jeff marijuana, smoked some themselves, pulled the jacket from Jeff's head, and sent him off. Jeff identified his assailants as between eighteen and twenty years old, one taller than the other, one wearing a bulky V-neck sweater, and the other with a large belt buckle and hushpuppy shoes.
The "similar" crime testimony was elicited from an eleven-year-old boy, Shawn, who testified to being sexually abused by two men on