“Did you do that?,” Assistant Prosecutor John Nicholas asked.

“No,” the girl replied.

A probable-cause affidavit filed in the case alleges that Cargile touched the girl’s genitals with his penis, the basis for the sodomy charge. While the girl testified that Cargile was touching himself, she did not testify as to any specific contact with her.

The mother told the court that she asked her daughter while they were walking to the store if the defendant had touched her and the girl had told her that he had. She said she also asked her if he had made her touch him, and the girl said he had.

Today

Circuit Judge David Mouton adjourned the court for the day after the mother’s testimony. The state is expected to call a nurse, who conducted a sexual-abuse forensic examination of the girl, and a detective as witnesses when the trial resumes today.