sister, and their mother came from Pensacola to Fort Walton Beach to attend a neurofibromatosis charity function on a weekend in July 1986. At this time the older child was six years of age, the younger child five. While in Fort Walton Beach, they stayed in the home of appellant and his wife, who were active in charity functions related to this disease. The mother testified that both children requested to sleep with appellant and his wife, and during this sleep-over the appellant allegedly committed some acts of abuse on the older child.
Because of a dispute between the victim's mother and the appellant's wife that weekend over the use of charity funds, the mother left appellant's house and returned home with her children. Later, after the mother noticedwhat appeared to be blood on the older child's underpants, she contacted the family's pediatrician with the concern that the girl had been abused. The older child was physically examined and was interviewed by the Child Protection Team. Physical abuse was suspected, and appellant was arrested and charged with lewd and lascivious acts in the presence of a child. Appellant entered a plea of nolo contendere to this charge. At the time of appellant's arrest for offenses committed against the older girl, the younger girl, the alleged victim in the present case, gave no indication of abuse after questioning by her mother.
Nearly a year after the act of battery was committed on the older child, however, the younger child indicated to her mother that the appellant had sexually