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armed robberies included unspecified time in incarceration). Fielding v. State, 278 Ga. 309, 602 S.E.2d 597 (September 13, 2004). Similar murder to which defendant confessed in 1969 was not too remote to be admitted in prosecution for murder committed in 1994. Both involved armed robberies of persons working alone late at night. Wright v. State, 259 Ga.App. 74, 576 S.E.2d 64 (January 3, 2003). Acts of sodomy and sexual battery committed against defendant’s sister thirty years earlier were properly admitted into evidence, notwithstanding remoteness. “As we have repeatedly held, … similar transaction evidence that shows a pattern of sexual abuse against several generations of members of the same family is admissible despite the lapse of time between the acts. See Bryson v. State , 210 Ga.App. 642, 643-644(2), 437 S.E.2d 352 (1993) (31-year pattern of abuse); Starnes v. State , 205 Ga.App. 882, 883(1), 424 S.E.2d 4 (1992) (33-year pattern of abuse); Cooper v. State , 173 Ga.App. 254, 255(1), 325 S.E.2d 877 (1985) (19-year lapse of time between independent crimes and indicted offenses).” Accord, Goodroe v. State , 238 Ga.App. 66, 518 S.E.2d 139 (May 12, 1999) ( similar rapes over 10 years apart not too remote, especially where defendant incarcerated during part of intervening time); Shorter v. State , 271 Ga.App. 528, 610 S.E.2d 162 (February 7, 2005) ( 26- year pattern of abuse ); Mikell v. State , 281 Ga.App. 739, 637 S.E.2d 142 (October 4, 2006) ( sexual offenses occurring 10 and 13 years prior not too remote); Calloway v. State , 287 Ga.App. 265, 651 S.E.2d 190 (August 15, 2007) ( prior molestation incidents, 15 and 26 years earlier, were not too remote for admission as similar transactions); Pareja v. State , 286 Ga. 117, 686 S.E.2d 232 (November 2, 2009) ( prior child molestation incident, 26 years earlier , was not too remote); Cannon v. State , 296 Ga.App. 687, 675 S.E.2d 560 (March 17, 2009) (15 years between molestations); Cline v. State , 300 Ga.App. 615, 685 S.E.2d 501 (October 27, 2009) (twenty years between molestation offenses not too remote, “especially … where the accused spent part of the interval incarcerated,’ [cit.] as Cline did here for nearly eight years.”). But see Tyson v. State , 232 Ga.App. 732, 503 S.E.2d 640 (1998) (Similar transactions occurring between 1956 and 1960 were too remote in prosecution for sexual offenses committed between 1990 and 1994); Downer v. State , 310 Ga.App. 136, 712 S.E.2d 571 (June 17, 2011). Sewell v. State, 244 Ga.App. 449, 536 S.E.2d 173 (June 13, 2000). Child molestation and related convictions affirmed. “The admission of defendant's so-called similar or extrinsic acts of fondling and attempted anal sodomy on other cousins is enumerated as error. But proof of his predilection for pederasty is relevant and admissible to show his state of mind toward the type of young victims such as M.L. and C.W. and to establish his pattern of sexual predation. Green v. State, 242 Ga.App. 868(3), 532 S.E.2d 111 (2000). Accord Wellborn v. State, 258 Ga. 570, 572(2), 372 S.E.2d 220 (1988). The 20–year lapse of time between episodes of the sexual exploitation of young family members does not render this evidence impermissibly stale. Nichols v. State, 221 Ga.App. 600, 602(3), 473 S.E.2d 491 (1996). Compare Tyson v. State, 232 Ga.App. 732(1), 503 S.E.2d 640 (1998) (40–year–old episodes of cunnilingus not involving family member too remote).” Slakman v. State, 272 Ga. 662, 533 S.E.2d 383 (July 13, 2000). Murder conviction reversed on other grounds. In trial for murder of defendant’s third wife, trial court erred in admitting similar transaction testimony from first wife of defendant’s verbal and physical abuse during their marriage thirty years earlier . “This is particularly true since there was no evidence that Slakman physically abused his second wife during that marriage. [fn.] Thus there was a significant break in the ‘course of criminal conduct’ which the state argues this evidence demonstrates, [fn.] further reducing the relevance of the remote act at issue.” Hines, writing for Hunstein and Carley, dissents. Vehaun v. State, 244 Ga.App. 136, 534 S.E.2d 873 (May 22, 2000). The trial court properly admitted 1975 and 1976 convictions for child molestations, since the time lapse between those convictions and his 1999 trial went to the weight of the evidence, not its admissibility. Scott v. State, 240 Ga.App. 586, 524 S.E.2d 287 (November 1, 1999). Conviction for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute affirmed; prior conviction for same offense properly admitted as similar transaction. “The evidence showed that eighteen years earlier [fn: Cooper v. State, 173 Ga.App. 254, 255(1), 325 S.E.2d 877 (1985) (the lapse of 19 years between the prior occurrences and the offenses charged goes to the weight and credibility of such testimony, not its admissibility). Compare Gilstrap v. State, 261 Ga. 798, 410 S.E.2d 423 (1991) (where an event 31 years in the past was too remote for similar transaction evidence). ] Scott was in a vehicle in the same geographic area as this case, when the police searched his car pursuant to information from a reliable confidential informant and found ten pounds of marijuana. Scott argues that the only similarity between the two cases is the marijuana. We do not agree. Both cases occurred in Chatham County, only two miles apart. Both were sales of marijuana to Scott in large enough quantities to indicate intent