A sentencing judge's finding that a carer's knowledge of a child's genital and anal injuries equated to knowledge of sexual abuse was upheld as reasonably open on the evidence, where the medical evidence established the injuries would have been obvious and the carer's evidence was rejected as inconsistent and unreliable. The standard of proof for contested facts at sentence under s 132C Evidence Act 1977 (Qld) for serious offences approaches that of beyond reasonable doubt.
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