DREBEN, J.
After a four-day trial, a jury found the defendant, Richard A. Costello, guilty of unlawfully having intercourse with a child under sixteen years of age, in violation of G.L.c. 265, § 23. The defendant challenges the conviction on numerous grounds, none of which requires reversal.
The jury could have found the following facts. The parents of the complainant became friendly with the defendant, Costello, in the mid 1970's, when the complainant...
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