Differences in the quality of evidence supporting different counts — including the presence or absence of corroboration, the specificity of preliminary complaint, and the complainant's own admissions about vague memory — can reconcile apparently inconsistent verdicts of conviction and acquittal. For sentencing, rape of a 12-year-old child by oral penetration in a breach of trust situation, where the offender has no criminal history and the offence was opportunistic, attracts a sentence in the range of three to four years' imprisonment.
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