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at that time I couldn’t even tell the difference between the two, so I told
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him I didn’t know” (AB 94, Line S to U). Miss X also testified that the
applicant asked her what kind of car her father drove and the registration
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number of the car. She said she did tell the applicant “because at that
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time [she] thought that there were cars everywhere on the street, [the
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applicant] wouldn’t be able to recognize. Even if he did, he wouldn’t
really go up to talk to [her] father” (AB 95 Line C to E).
24.
In our judgment, it is not inherently improbable for Miss X to
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have acted as she did, particularly when the applicant introduced the topic
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of sexual matters to her and repeatedly asked her to give him a naked
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photograph of herself. It is not beyond the realm of reality that
youngsters would do things with strangers via the internet that they would
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not have done if they were face-to-face with such strangers.
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25.
It is also not inherently improbable for a young girl aged 13
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or 14 to be scared and feel intimidated when the very person to whom she
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had sent naked photographs threatened not only to publish those
photographs, but also to send copies to her father, if she refused to meet
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with him, resulting in her meeting with and being sexually assaulted by
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that person.
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26.
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Although the learned judge did not set out the differences
and/or inconsistencies drawn to the attention of Miss X during
cross-examination in full in his Reasons for Verdict, the fact of the matter
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is that Miss X has given her explanation as to why there were such
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differences or inconsistencies and the learned judge accepted her
explanation. One must not lose sight of the fact that Miss X was relating
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