The absence of a complaint in contemporaneous police records (COPS database) does not render guilty verdicts unreasonable where the inconsistencies were squarely placed before the jury, the jury had the advantage of seeing and hearing the witnesses, and the whole of the evidence — including unchallenged convictions on other counts and tendency evidence — supported the verdicts. A child complainant's unreliable evidence as to precise dates does not preclude the jury from accepting the substance of the complainant's evidence about the events themselves.
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