The appellant appealed his convictions for sexual interference and invitation to sexual touching involving two children who had been placed in temporary foster care in his daughter's home.
The appellant argued the trial judge erred in admitting out-of-court statements from one of the children under the principled exception to the hearsay rule, and in using the evidence of each child as similar fact evidence on the counts relating to the other.
The Court of Appeal dismissed the appeal, finding the trial judge correctly applied the principled exception to the hearsay rule and that the trial judge's findings of guilt did not improperly rely on similar fact evidence.
