Charges alleging non-sexual violence and sexual offending by a parent against children may be properly joined on a single indictment where the violence and sexual offending share a common factual origin, particularly where the prosecution case is that the pattern of violence explains the victims' acquiescence to the sexual offending. A deliberate forensic decision by trial counsel not to seek severance will not attract appellate intervention absent the tightly restricted circumstances recognised in [name withheld] v R. An indictment may be overloaded yet still comply with the statutory requirements for joinder.
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