The accused was tried on multiple child sexual offence counts arising from alleged misconduct toward a child during a babysitting arrangement in the family home.
Applying the W.(D.) framework, the court accepted the complainant's evidence, as supported by the mother's narrative and significant corroboration from forensic computer evidence showing deleted pornographic folders matching the complainant's description.
The court rejected the accused's and spouse's evidence as concocted, implausible, and unreliable.
The court further held that the accused showed sexually explicit material for the subjective purpose of facilitating the sexual offences, amounting to grooming within the meaning of the facilitation language discussed in Legare.
Guilty verdicts were entered on all five counts.
