Ordered that the judgment is reversed, on the law, and a new trial is ordered. No questions of fact have been raised or considered.
The nine-year-old infant complainant's answers to the highly suggestive preliminary examination conducted by the Trial Judge and the prosecutor demonstrate that she did not have "`some conception' of the obligations of an oath and the consequences of giving false testimony" (People v Parks,
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