Man cleared of defiling partner's daughter

A man was cleared of defiling and having sex with his partner's 14-year-old daughter after a court found that the girl was not credible as she had changed versions countless times. The girl, it emerged, had psychiatric problems and whenever she faced a difficult situation she made an allegation of sexual abuse, the court noted. In fact, when her parents separated, she had claimed she was abused by her adoptive father. She then claimed that her mother's partner abused her at a time when her mother disapproved of her relationship with another girl. Magistrate Audrey Demicoli presided over the case of the 49-year-old partner who denied defiling the girl and having sex with her on and before February 2010. When the girl testified in court, she said her mother disapproved of her relationship with another girl and wanted her to break up. The partner then offered to allow her to use his mobile phone to contact her girlfriend - on  condition that she touched his private parts. She claimed that this happened often and that she also had consensual sex with her mother's partner on two occasions, in her mother's bed. When the girl's girlfriend broke up with her she was shattered and, round...