Prosecutors and trial judges in sexual offence cases must carefully assess whether distress evidence is capable of being used as independent circumstantial evidence by applying the Flannery factors, particularly where there are multiple possible causes for the distress and a significant time interval between the alleged offending and the observation of distress.
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