A conviction for historical child sexual assault may be set aside as unreasonable where the combination of the complainant's tender age at the time, lengthy delay in complaint, inconsistencies with documentary records, sworn denial by all persons said to have been present, improbability of the alleged occurrence, and corrections to the complainant's account give rise to a doubt that cannot be resolved by the jury's advantage in seeing and hearing the witnesses. Setting aside the verdict does not involve a finding that the complainant lied.
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