I make no comment on the credibility or veracity of either the accuser or the accused.  The court has acquitted Hawkes and that appears to be the right result here.  However, I found the author's comments about how the specific charges relied on were now no longer part of the Criminal Code and were used for many years to prosecute gay men to completely miss the point.   While what he says is of course true,  the issue here was whether an adult had committed sexual assault on a child.   Sexual assault on a child is never right no matter what you call it and the author should not be calling into question the use of past provisions of the Code that are used to protect children, particularly when those are the provisions that must be relied on.