In Leaptrot v. State, 272 Ga. App. 587, 594 (612 SE2d 887) (2005), the prosecutor said in his opening statement that the defendant was a sexual predator. Id. In that case we held that there was no error in the trial court's finding "that these remarks were proper references to the evidence and matters that the prosecutor expected to prove at trial, and thus would have provided no ground for a successful objection." Id. at 595. See also Mikell v. State, 281 Ga. App. 739, 744 (637 SE2d 142) (2006) ("State prosecutor's arguments characterizing defendant as a child molester and as dishonest were permissible as either references to defendant's past conduct or inferences drawn from the evidence").