10 told him to return home at once as his mother needed him. When he got home, he went into his mother’s bedroom to find her lying on her bed and crying uncontrollably. His mother then hugged A to her and the complainant realised that A had also been molested by the appellant. The complainant then also started crying because he thought that it was all his fault. It was after this that he decided to lay charges against the appellant, so as to prevent the same thing happening to other children. [20] At the end of his examination-in-chief, the complainant explained how his life had been influenced by what had happened between him and the appellant. From time to time thereafter, he started to ‘wonder’ about himself (referring, no doubt, to his sexual orientation). There were times when he saw a ‘guy’ and said to himself that the ‘guy’ was sexy. The ‘last thing he wanted to be was gay’ and he had to fight this struggle taking place inside him. When he went to public toilets and encountered other men who were older than he, he felt very uncomfortable and scared because he did not know which of them did ‘such things’. He did not want to be alone in a public toilet with such a man and hence always went into the cubicle to urinate, locking the door behind him. [21] Mrs B, the complainant’s mother, who was at that stage working as a nurse and was frequently on night duty, confirmed in her testimony that the appellant had become a close family friend. According to her, sometimes, if there were other guests in the house, the appellant, the complainant and A all slept in A’s bedroom, A and the appellant each on a bunk bed and the complainant on the floor. She testified that the whole family was very fond of the appellant. Despite what had happened, they still loved him; indeed she felt sorry for him. She also confirmed that their financial position was bad at that time and the appellant often gave the children gifts that they could not afford to give them and that he was generous to the family. She saw nothing sinister in the fact that he frequently visited them and slept over at their home and also saw nothing untoward in him spending time alone with her children. She could not understand why her children had not told her about the molestation by the appellant. According to Mrs B she knew that, during the course of 2002, the appellant was the accused in a criminal trial involving the molestation of a child in his dental surgery. When she asked him about this, he told her that he was not guilty and that the parents