Haughton had been spanking the girls excessively. Child Protective Services investigated, but took no action. Haughton sexually assaulted the complainant several times. A week or two after the assaults, she told Haughton's girlfriend about the assaults. Haughton had threatened after one of the assaults to "stomp" her if she told. Nevertheless, she testified about the assaults on videotape.
After his arrest, Haughton telephoned her and instructed her to retract her story and tell the authorities that she had invented the sexual assaults out of anger. Her cousins both had bicycles, and he promised her a bicycle if she would retract her story. At trial, she first denied the sexual assaults. In the afternoon, she returned to the stand and testified about the assaults, demonstrating her meaning with anatomically correctcomplain that the trial relied upon the wrong ground in admitting the videotape. The first point of error is overruled.
In his second point of error, Haughton contends the evidence was insufficient to sustain the conviction. He argues that when the complainant demonstrated Haughton's sexual assaults with anatomically correct dolls before the jury, the prosecution's verbalization of the demonstration for the record was flawed. The prosecution referred to the analog of a vagina on the little girl doll as its "vagina area." Haughton maintains that the State thus failed to make the record reflect evidence Haughton's penis had contacted the complainant's vagina. He also contends that the complainant's denials of the assaults, when she first testified, detracted from the sufficiency of the evidence to prove contact. The critical inquiry