Where a child complainant's account of the mechanism by which sexual offending was concealed from others is objectively disproven by unchallenged evidence, and the change in the complainant's account is attributable to a parent's suggestion, the compounding improbabilities may require a jury acting rationally to have entertained a reasonable doubt. A court's doubt about a complainant's credibility and reliability arising from evidence on one charge may properly be taken into account when assessing the complainant's evidence on another charge, and nothing in the Jury Directions Act 2015 (Vic) prevents this.
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