People v. Kidd

This case presents question as to whether trial court properly denied defendant’s pre-trial motion to dismiss indictment that charged defendant with crime of predatory criminal sexual assault of child by alleging existence of “an act of contact, however slight, between the sex organ or anus of another person and the part of the body of another” without alleging “for the purpose of sexual gratification.” Appellate Court, in affirming defendant’s conviction, found that indictment did not meaningfully depart from language of statute, where, under Oxford English Dictionary, “sexual contact” as stated in indictment is conduct done for purpose of sexual gratification or arousal.