The case illustrates that where a child complainant's evidence at cross-examination is limited to remembering fewer incidents than disclosed in earlier s 93A statements, the jury may still be satisfied beyond reasonable doubt of multiple incidents where there is significant differentiation in timing, location and description between the accounts given in separate interviews. A female co-offender sentenced as a party to her male partner's sexual offending against their child may have a justifiable sense of grievance where her sentence does not adequately reflect the difference between her role and the male appellant's more extensive offending against multiple complainants.
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