SIKORA, J.
A Superior Court jury convicted the defendant, David Oppenheim, of five counts of rape of a child. See G. L. c. 265, § 23. He appeals upon multiple grounds, but argues principally that the trial judge should have instructed the jury that, before they could consider a confession contained in an instant message (IM) conversation,
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