The court properly exercised its discretion in admitting evidence that, in an incident that occurred shortly before the charged rapes, defendant showed pornographic pictures to the 13-year-old victim. This evidence was properly admitted to demonstrate defendant's pattern of increasingly serious sexual conduct toward the victim leading up to the charged crimes (see People v Rosario,
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