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Curry v. State, 330 Ga.App. 610, 768 S.E.2d 791 (February 5, 2015). Sex trafficking and related convictions affirmed; under 2013 Evidence Code, trial court properly admitted similar transaction testimony from another woman prostituted by defendant. “[Similar transaction witness] L.B. testified that Curry sold her as a prostitute and held her against her will, just like he did with the victims in this case. Indeed, the evidence presented below shows that Curry sold all three victims to men as prostitutes; required them to solicit their own clients; controlled the time, prices, and location for their services; exerted control over them at all times; kept all proceeds; and prevented them from leaving his house through threats and intimidation. And given the striking similarities between these offenses, we conclude that the extrinsic evidence of Curry's prior bad acts was sufficiently similar to the charged offenses to be admissible under OCGA § 24–4–404(b).” Jordan v. State, 328 Ga.App. 462, 762 S.E.2d 157 (July 16, 2014). Aggravated assault conviction affirmed, but sodomy conviction reversed on other grounds. Similar transaction evidence was properly admitted under pre-2013 Evidence Code. “Our review shows that both the victim in this case and the victim in the similar transaction were Jordan's ex-girlfriends and that Jordan called both of them ‘whores,’ threatened to kill both victims, ripped off the victims' clothing, choked both victims, put a knife to the throat of both victims, asserted that the victims or their bodies were his alone, and sexually assaulted both victims violently.” Reeves v. State, 294 Ga. 673, 755 S.E.2d 695 (March 3, 2014). Felony murder conviction affirmed; evidence of a prior attempted rape was properly admitted under pre-2013 Evidence Code. Trial court properly found that the two incidents were sufficiently similar. “The [prior] victim's testimony established the following similarities between the two acts: the two victims were both approximately the same age at the time they were attacked; although the transcript does not establish the previous victim's race, the trial court noted in its order that both victims were young African–American women; both victims were choked or strangled; in both instances, the victim's clothing was torn and her pants or underpants were pulled down; in both instances, the victim's face was pressed into the ground and the victim was sexually assaulted; although they occurred at different locations, each attack occurred in the summer on a path through a wooded empty lot and the lots were within blocks of each other; the 1998 attack occurred at night while the victim was walking alone and the crime at issue in this case apparently occurred at night or in the pre-dawn hours also while the victim was walking alone.” Ewell v. State, 318 Ga.App. 812, 734 S.E.2d 792 (November 28, 2012). Aggravated child molestation and related convictions affirmed; not error to admit similar transaction evidence from “twelve of Ewell’s former child victims, not including the victims in the instant case,” despite defendant’s contention that the similar transaction evidence “dwarfed” the evidence of the charged offenses. Citing Norris v. State , 230 Ga.App. 492, 496 S.E.2d 781 (1998) (no error in admitting evidence of eleven similar transaction witnesses in prosecution for physical and mental abuse of an adult woman). Bibb v. State, 315 Ga.App. 49, 726 S.E.2d 534 (March 21, 2012). Aggravated child molestation convictions affirmed; trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence showing 31-year old defendant’s lustful disposition toward teen and pre-teen girls: kissing one teenager and writing her love letters; having consensual sex with and marrying another teenager, only to tell her she was “too old for him” when she turned 20; and collecting “photographs of preteen and teenaged girls, some of which were labeled with sexual innuendos or comments referring to his preference for preteen or teenaged girls.” Accord, Roberson v. State , 327 Ga.App. 804, 761 S.E.2d 361 (July 1, 2014) (in child molestation prosecution, similar transactions properly admitted to show lustful disposition toward preteen or teenaged children). Lakes v. State, 314 Ga.App. 10, 722 S.E.2d 859 (February 7, 2012). Kidnapping, rape, and related convictions affirmed; trial court properly admitted similar transaction evidence of a prior sexual assault on another victim. “‘Evidence of an earlier assault on a woman is material to the issue of consent or the lack thereof, and has a direct bearing on appellant's bent of mind.’ (Citation and punctuation omitted.) Brooks v. State, 230 Ga.App. 846, 847(1) (498 S.E.2d 139) (1998). In this case, the similarities are pronounced. Both women were intoxicated after leaving a club and sexually assaulted while in their own cars. Both women were forced to perform oral sodomy after being threatened with being shot. Lakes was later found in possession of the cars belonging to both victims and the incidents happened seven months apart.” Accord, Day v. State , 315 Ga.App. 824, 728 S.E.2d 337 (May 10, 2012). Mauldin v. State, 313 Ga.App. 228, 721 S.E.2d 182 (December 7, 2011). Child molestation convictions affirmed; trial court properly admitted evidence that defendant asked victim’s younger sister to “sleep with him.” “[T]here was sufficient evidence to show that the incident at issue occurred at the same location and within the same three-month time period as the charged crimes; involved the victim's sister, who was only one year younger than the victim and who was at the