A WOMAN and her lover have been acquitted of sex charges after the prosecution failed to prove that the alleged victim, the daughter of the man's ex-girlfriend, was a ''defective''.
The man, 43, still faces a count of living off the earnings of prostitution between mid-1990 and May 21 last year, which he denies.
In his ruling yesterday, Judge Longley said even a trained psychiatrist had failed to conclude whether the alleged victim, 23, was a defective.
The woman defendant, 48, a street hawker who also worked as a prostitute, had pleaded not guilty to causing prostitution of a defective on May 21 last year.
The man had denied one count of having unlawful sexual intercourse with a defective in 1990.
Defence counsel for each had submitted the defendants had no case to answer, and that no proper tests had been conducted to assess the alleged victim's intelligence.
