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Court name
Supreme Court
Case number
CO 53 of 2017
Counsel for plantiff
Khalyaan Karunakaran

R v D (CO 53 of 2017) [2019] SCSC 633 (25 July 2019);

Media neutral citation
[2019] SCSC 633
Counsel for defendant
Alexia Amesbury
Headnote and holding:

Criminal law: sexual assult: minor children: failure by mother to immediately act on information previously given by children because she believed the accused does not exculpate the accused. 

Coram
Burhan, J