PIERRE, S.D. (KELO) -- A circuit judge didn't err in allowing a 19-year-old Sioux Falls man with developmental disabilities to testify at a sexual-contact trial last year while holding a stuffed animal to help him stay calm, according to the South Dakota Supreme Court.

A Minnehaha County jury found Larry Gene Richter of Sioux Falls guilty of three counts of the felony crime of sexual contact with a person incapable of consenting, after Richter had touched the victim's genital area three different times and was told each time to stop.

Richter appealed, arguing that the victim, D.W., who had the mental ability of a seven-year-old, shouldn't have been allowed to take the witness stand with a stuffed make-believe monkey named Ish holding a banana.

Richter further argued that Circuit Judge J

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