The accused was tried on charges of sexual assault, sexual interference, sexual exploitation, threatening bodily harm, common assault, and assault with a weapon arising from prolonged abuse of a child in his care.
The court held that delayed disclosure and imperfect recall of dates and peripheral details were not credibility markers of fabrication, particularly in historic child sexual abuse cases.
Relying on the complainant's internally consistent evidence, corroborative eyewitness evidence for one incident, and rejecting the accused's evasive and implausible testimony, the court found the Crown proved all counts beyond a reasonable doubt.
Convictions were entered on all six counts.
